Scott Lynch - Time Quotes

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

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Yes, I like it a lot, it's all worth having to bathe, even!
Hmmm, said Chains. You live long enough for your stones to drop, then tell me if bathing is really such a hardship when the young women around you have bosoms that are more than theoretical.
What? When my what?
Never mind. That subject will be sufficiently confusing in its own good time.

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Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

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In time, you'll come to understand that a state like ours cannot afford to offer up a show of weakness for honesty's sake; Duke Nicovante charges me with vouchsafing his security, not his conscience.

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Time went by with all the speed of a sleepless night.

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You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

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I can't live forever. Each time something like this affair lands in my lap, I suddenly recall that I don't want to live forever.

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Nikoros, your job this afternoon is to say yes to anything that comes out of my mouth. The more you rehearse this, the sooner it'll become a smooth mechanical process allowing no time for painful reflection. Can you practice for me?
Yes.
You're a natural.

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