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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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Oh, gods, he cried. Oh, gods protect me! It's you!
Of course it's me, said Locke. You just don't know who the hell I am yet.

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Sabetha threw her own shoes and costume components on the tiles near the bath. She retained only her black hose and a dressing gown. Locke did his best to look like he wasn't staring, and she did an admirable job of pretending she wasn't encouraging him.

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Why the hell are you here?
A matter of conscience.
Really? said Locke. Yours? You keep alluding to its existence. Somehow I'm not convinced.

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Are you smarter than a pig, Locke? On occasion, said Locke. There are contrary opinions.

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You're trying to be charming again, she said softly, but I do not choose to be charmed, Locke Lamora.

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Time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.

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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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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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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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I never would've thought—
Don't think, said Locke. I'm paid to do that for you.

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Remember when I told you, for the first time? You nearly threw me off the roof—
I thought you deserved it. You know, it's an opinion I return to from time to time, whether or not a roof is available.
You're a difficult woman, Sabetha. But then, difficult women are the only ones worth falling in love with.
How would you know? It's not like you've ever been after anyone else—
That part's easy. I started with the most difficult woman possible, so there was never any need to look any further.
You're trying to be charming. She squeezed his hand once, then pulled away. I choose not to be entirely charmed, Locke Lamora.
Not entirely?
Not entirely. Not yet.

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You're taking the world awfully personally. Didn't Chains ever tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?
The what?
The single congruent aspect of every known religion. The one shared, universal assumption about the human condition.
What is it?
He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.
I'm just old enough to find that distressingly accurate.
You see? It's universal, said Locke.

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Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.

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That's a sweet piece, said Jean, briefly forgetting to be aggravated. You didn't snatch that off a street.
No, said Locke, before taking another deep draught of the warm water in the decanter. I got it from the neck of the governor's mistress.
You can't be serious.
In the governor's manor.
Of all the—
In the governor's bed.
Damned lunatic!
With the governor sleeping next to her... It is possible, said Locke with a sheepish grin, that I have been slightly too bold.

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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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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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