“But time’s a river, Locke, and we’ve always drifted farther down it than we think.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Can’t buy in for the last hand if you don’t get there in time to take a chair.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“He withdrew then, leaving [him] standing in the bloody morning sunlight, leaving him all alone at the heart of his fortress, for… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“When you don’t know everything you could know, it’s a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.”… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Surely, your readings must have taught you that when men and women of arms have bled to secure a time of peace,… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
They kissed for the sort of endless moment that only exists between lovers whose lips are still new territory to one another. — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid. — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“You are beyond mad," said Locke after several moments of silent, furious thought. "Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time. — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“when men and women of arms have bled to secure a time of peace, the very people who most benefit from that… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Please, boy. Let’s not start out with either of us insulting the other’s intelligence. There are only three people in life you can never… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they’re lying—it seems they never die at all.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“ESPARA, FORMERLY a seat of prestige only one step below Therim Pel itself, had descended from its imperial years the way some men and… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“What an interesting choice of words. “Not real, and never were.” Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our profession? Why… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Why were all his fantasies so calamitous for that table, which had done him no injury?” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets,” said Sabetha, “than riches from a man whose purse stays heavy.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“He was bewildered at how quickly he had escaped his old life and fallen into this new one with strangely pleasant crazy people.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day. — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
