“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.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Oh please,” said Locke. “It’ll never happen.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“I am the king idiot,” he muttered, “of all the world’s fucking idiots.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn’t it?”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
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