Scott Lynch Quotes

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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…
• Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.
• Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?
• I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the…
• You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.
• I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A…
• Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn…
• I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning
• There are only three people in life you can never fool--pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm…
• ... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four…
• 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 forty…
• My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.
• I'm not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little.
• Mew," the kitten retorted, locking gazes with him. It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming. 'I was…
• I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up.
• Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the…
• I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.
• Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora to Requin)
• In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams
• When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.

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