Scott Lynch - The Republic of Thieves (2013)

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

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

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

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

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

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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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