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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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I'm losing my taste for subtlety as fast as I'm depleting my supply.
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Gods, all this maneuvering for moral advantage. You'd think we were married.
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I never even liked cats all that much.
Surely you realize, said Patience, that cats are no great respecters of human opinion.
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You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.
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They kissed for the sort of endless moment that only exists between lovers whose lips are still new territory to one another.
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I say again, impossible.
And I correct you again. Difficult. 'Difficult' and 'impossible' are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.
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'Commonly thought,' you say? Many things are commonly thought, but perhaps not commonly thought all the way through.
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Maybe this is going to complicate the hell out of things. So what? You're the complication I want more than anything else. You're my favorite complication.
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You rule the Bondsmagi, said Locke, incredulously.
Rule is too strong a term. We do occasionally manage to avert total chaos.
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I never would've thought—
Don't think, said Locke. I'm paid to do that for you.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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Born:
April 2, 1978
(age 46)
Bio:
Scott Lynch is an American fantasy author, best known for his Gentleman Bastard series of novels. He resides in Western Wisconsin in the city of New Richmond.
Known for:
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)
The Bastards and the Knives
Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007)
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