Scott Lynch Short Quotes

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Only gods-damned fools die for lines drawn on maps.

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I'm sure we can communicate. I speak fluent hatchet.

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

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Some mysteries are better off with their throats slit.

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

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Push your luck, gorgeous, and eventually luck pushes back.

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The sun is up, and all that money out there won't steal itself.

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

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Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.

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

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

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I'm losing my taste for subtlety as fast as I'm depleting my supply.

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When you're a priest, people tend to see the robe rather than the man.

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Here's to charming losers, I suppose.
If only we knew where to find some.

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

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Gods, all this maneuvering for moral advantage. You'd think we were married.

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

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

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Thank you very much, sir, said Beth with nothing resembling actual gratitude.

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There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

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

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It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming.

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

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

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Let's be obvious. Me brute, you weasel.
Agreed. You brute, me charming mastermind.

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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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Are you really that arrogant, that logic is as optional as a fashion accessory for you?

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If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

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