Scott Lynch Quotes

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I don't want you to agree with me; I want you to use your misplaced acorn of a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again.

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My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it

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Damn it, when will you learn that refusing to admit you've lost isn't the same as winning?

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There were difficulties.
Oh, she said, so you're the man whose life develops complications! I've so longed to meet you; the rest of us here in this world have it much too easy, I'm afraid.

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Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

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You needed a bath, Jean interrupted. You were covered in self-pity.

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Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind

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Most of us find it starkly ludicrous that the height of all possible ambition, to the ungifted, must be to drape oneself in crowns and robes.

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What kind of knife is this? Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this.

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My responsibility was to tell you the truth, not wrap you in swaddling clothes. She raised her hood again, half-veiling her face in shadow. Nor protect you from your own badly aimed temper.

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We were sent here to learn from you!
You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.

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I make it a point never to trust men with weapons to my windpipe.

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When you see the crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell hi that Lock Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.

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People die when they get hanged. It's why they hang them!

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Master Kosta... What a pleasure! Selendri tells me you've expressed an interest in getting killed.

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I'm not without my sympathies, Lamora. They just don't necessarily reside with you.

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Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.

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What's your hand look like?
A parched desert... How's yours?
A wasteland of bitter frustration.

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The trouble with creating military dictators, Locke reflected, was getting rid of them after the immediate crisis was past.

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Next came the sort of kiss that banished the world to distant background noise and seemed to last a month.

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I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But...can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats!

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As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It's not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.

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Locke put his head in his hands and sighed.
I don't expect life to make sense, he said after a few moments, but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.

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It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

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Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.

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When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.

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Government affairs are a bit beyond our experience, said Jean.
Nonsense. You'll feel right at home. What is government but theft by consent? You'll be moving in a society of kindred spirits.

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There are only three people in life you can never fool—pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm bullshit-proof.

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Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.

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A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

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