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#1

“I've got kids that enjoy stealing. I've got kids that don't think about stealing one way or the other, and I've got kids that just tolerate stealing because they know they've got nothing else to do. But nobody--and I mean nobody--has ever been hungry for it like this boy. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing. He...steals too much.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: gentleman-bastards, locke-lamora, stealing, thieves

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#2

“I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished," Locke whispered. "There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

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#3

“I only steal because my dear old family needs the money to live!"
Locke Lamora made this proclamation with his wine glass held high; he and the other Gentleman Bastards were seated at the old witchwood table. . . . The others began to jeer.
"Liar!" they chorused
"I only steal because this wicked world won't let me work an honest trade!" Calo cried, hoisting his own glass.
"LIAR!"
"I only steal," said Jean, "because I've temporarily fallen in with bad company."
"LIAR!"
At last the ritual came to Bug; the boy raised his glass a bit shakily and yelled, "I only steal because it's heaps of fucking fun!"
"BASTARD!”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

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#4

“Someday, Locke Lamora,” he said, “someday, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope I’m still around to see it.”
“Oh please,” said Locke. “It’ll never happen.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

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#5

“... 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 most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'"

"Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo.

"The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..."

"... is Locke ..."

"... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..."

"... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: danger, death, gods, humour

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#6

“I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized."

Everyone in the room stared at him.

"I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: assholes, bondsmagi, cauterizing, tongues, torture

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#7

“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: freedom, locke-lamora, underestimated

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#8

“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 bullshit-proof.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

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#9

“To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: clever, rich, self-confidence

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#10

“Why, Yrael?” it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. “Why?”

“Life,” said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. “Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.”
― Garth Nix, Abhorsen

tags: crowning-moment-of-awesome, mogget, yrael

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#11

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

tags: destiny, path, questioning

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#12

“Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

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#13

“I'm not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

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#14

“What's the n-never-fail universal apology?"

"'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

tags: apologies, apology, bribery

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#15

“I'm not gong to kill you," said Locke

I'm going to play a little game I like to call 'Scream in pain until you answer my fucking questions.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: gentlemen-bastards, locke-lamora

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#16

“Hope is what we all build lives for ourselves upon, is it not?”
― Scott Lynch

tags: the-lies-of-locke-lamora

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#17

“I shall give you a little prophecy, Locke Lamora, as best as I have seen it.
'Three things you must take up and three things you must lose before you die: a key, a crown, a child.' Patience pushed her hood up over her head. 'You will die when a silver rain falls.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

tags: prophecy

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#18

“You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

tags: humor, life-and-living

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#19

“You are beyond mad," said Locke after several moments of silent, furious thought. "Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss to which you may not aspire. Men living in gutters and drinking their own piss would shun your company. You are a prancing lunatic.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

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#20

“I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

tags: bravery, cheat, coward, fair-play, honesty, liar

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#21

“Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

tags: character, cowards, flaw, humanity, madmen, sanity, tragedy

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#22

“She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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#23

“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

tags: insanity, madness, time

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#24

“We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

tags: all, baby, childe, cynic, cynicism, enemy, eternal, even, humans, infant, know, knowledge, life, men, mewling, paul-hoffman, peapole, save, save-a-life, suppose, thomas-cale

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#25

“...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

tags: albin, arbell, believe, betrayal, cale, effects, friends, friendship, hate, hatred, hoffman, looks, love, lovers, older, pain, paul, seems, tomas, vipond, visible

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#26

“You should never tell your best friend anything you wouldn´t be prepared to tell your worst enemy.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

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#27

“Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

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#28

“Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.”
― Paul Hoffman

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#29

“Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.”
― Paul Hoffman

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#30

“It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

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