Scott Lynch

“Please, boy. Let’s not start out with either of us insulting the other’s intelligence. There are only three people in life you…

— Scott Lynch

“Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.”

— Scott Lynch

“Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they’re lying—it seems they never die at all.”

— Scott Lynch

“ESPARA, FORMERLY a seat of prestige only one step below Therim Pel itself, had descended from its imperial years the way some…

— Scott Lynch

Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give…

— Scott Lynch

“Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.”

— Scott Lynch

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

— Scott Lynch

“What an interesting choice of words. “Not real, and never were.” Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our…

— Scott Lynch

“Why were all his fantasies so calamitous for that table, which had done him no injury?”

— Scott Lynch

“I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets,” said Sabetha, “than riches from a man whose purse stays…

— Scott Lynch

“He was bewildered at how quickly he had escaped his old life and fallen into this new one with strangely pleasant crazy…

— Scott Lynch

I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the…

— Scott Lynch

“That's a sweet piece," said Jean, briefly forgetting to be aggravated. "You didn't snatch that off a street." "No," said Locke, before…

— Scott Lynch

“But time’s a river, Locke, and we’ve always drifted farther down it than we think.”

— Scott Lynch

“I understand, my lord. I…don’t wish to embarrass you again.” “Embarrass me? Jean, you misunderstand.” Maranzalla kicked idly at the toy rapier,…

— Scott Lynch

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

— Scott Lynch

“How very comforting. If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing”

— Scott Lynch

“A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything's finally in the right place.”

— Scott Lynch

Mew," the kitten retorted, locking gazes with him. It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the…

— Scott Lynch

“You’ve the presence of a mouse fart in a high wind. Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed…

— Scott Lynch

“Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink.”

— Scott Lynch

“Get serious about telling me where that money is," said Conté, "or I'll kick your ass so hard every piece of shit…

— Scott Lynch

“Beer now,bitch later.”

— Scott Lynch

Papa's in a bad way, Locke. I wanted to see you before you saw him - he has some...things he wishes to…

— Scott Lynch

“I don't have to fight or run," [Locke] cackled. "I changed the rules of the game. I just have to keep you…

— Scott Lynch