“The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.”
― Dune
― Dune
“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.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
Everyone in the room stared at him.
"I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.”
― Citizen of the Galaxy
― Citizen of the Galaxy
“Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
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