Jean-tannen Quote by 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 can never…

— Scott Lynch

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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