Quotes About Adventure

Congratulations! We're reverse burglars, here to give you fifty gold solari!

Jean," Locke gasped out during a brief lull between spasms of retching, "next time I conceive a plan like this, consider putting a hatchet in my skull." "Hardly efficacious." Jean swapped a full bucket for an empty one and gave Locke a friendly pat on the back. "Dulling my nice sharp blades on a skull as thick as yours...

Can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming 'Your cats! Give us all your god-damned cats!

The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games—" "—is Locke Lamora—

If these things are alchemical," said Sofia, "I'd better be the one to have a look at them." "If it could be dangerous, I'm going as well," said Lorenzo. "And me," said Conte "Great! We can all go! It'll be fun!" Locke waved his tied hands at the door. "But hurry it up, for fucks sake.

Oh, you know me." Jean reached behind his neck, down behind the loose leather vest he wore over his simple cotton tunic. He withdrew a pair of matching hatchets, each a foot and a half in length, with leather-wrapped handles and straight black blades that narrowed like scalpels. These were balanced with balls of blackened steel, each as wide around as a silver solon. The Wicked Sisters—Jean's weapons of choice. "I never travel alone. It's always the three of us.

Tonight is delicate business," said Drakasha. "Misstepping in Port Prodigal after midnight is like pissing on an angry snake. I need—" "Ahem," said Locke. "Originally, we're from Camorr." "Be on the boat in five minutes," said Drakasha.

Live snakes? ' said one of the scribes. 'You mean-' 'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up.

It is possible," said Locke with a sheepish grin, "that I have been slightly too bold.

To live the life the gods have given you, you must clutch wisely, then run. Run like the houds of hell on a sinner's scent!

Heavens," said Galdo in a deep, dramatic voice, "only one man living could have squeezed forth such a gleaming brown jewel—this is the work of Squatting Calo, the Midnight Shitter!

If the whole things goes to shit, just remember to throw yourself down the damn waterfall." "I'll cover your back, the sharp and bloody way.

And will they all hang with with you, for fellowship,and split death into equal shares like loot?" "I am not caught yet

Go forth now and live, Locke Lamora. Live, uncertain.

Got a ship with women and cats aboard, you'll have the finest luck you can hope

I mean, wouldn't it be grand, to have a legend that grew while you were alive to enjoy it? To sit in a tavern and hear all the people around you speaking of what you'd done, with no notion that you were among them as flesh and blood?

That sounds dangerous,'said Jean. 'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.' 'We?' 'We.

Wise in the ways of all such things is Jean Tannen," said Jean. "Wiser by far than most; especially most named Lamora." "Shut your fat, ugly, inarguably wiser face," said Locke.

Remember how she joked about twenty armed people in the next room?" said Jean with a sigh. He set down the book he'd been reading. "There were twenty armed men in the next room.

Land has its pirates, same as the sea

If what Locke is doing were larking about, corpses could get jobs as acrobats.

give until they were out of sight of Tal Verrar. "Southeast by

It's things like this that makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit life out here can be.

Painting, carving, rigging - you two will be rather busy.' 'Wow,' said Locke, 'that sounds like an absolutely grand way to spend the voyage.' It wasn't.