Aaron > Aaron's Quotes

“When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.”
― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Evil is evil, Stregobor,” said the witcher seriously as he got up. “Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I’m not a pious hermit. I haven't done only good in my life. But if I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“When you see the Crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell him that Locke Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.”
― Scott Lynch

“Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.”
― Ryohgo Narita, バッカーノ！1933 ＜下＞ THE SLASH 〜チノアメハ、ハレ〜

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
― Joss Whedon

“Thanks, but sometimes I think my sins are the only thing holding me together”
― Richard Kadrey, The Kill Society

“Crooked Warden,” said Locke, “men are stupid. Protect us from ourselves. If you can’t, let it be quick and painless.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“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 darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend."

"Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“ I want to hug you. And I want to tear your gods-damned head off. Both at once."

"Ah," said Locke. "Near as I can tell, that’s the definition of 'family' right there.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“I hope a shark tries to suck your cock!”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Congratulations! We’re reverse burglars, here to give you fifty gold solari!”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“You’re ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” Chinese Proverb”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“As Chains had once said, feeling like you wanted desperately to die was fine evidence that you had yet to do so.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“If only this city’s entire population of lurking assholes shared one set of balls, so I could kick it repeatedly.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“The world is cruel enough without our compounding it;”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Can’t fear the fire if you don’t scald your fingertips.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Gods. So this is what a command is. Staring consequences in the eye and pretending not to flinch.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Begging everyone's pardon," said Big Konar, "but it ain't polite to have an argument if nobody else knows what the fuck you're arguing about.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“You know who waxes philosophical about the tiniest weaknesses of enemies? The powerless.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“when men and women of arms have bled to secure a time of peace, the very people who most benefit from that peace are also the most likely to forget the bleeding.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“it was always impossible to put a price on making your enemy shit their breeches.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours. Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?"
"I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“It is possible,” said Locke with a sheepish grin, “that I have been slightly too bold.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“We carry your precious misery with us like a holy fucking relic.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies