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“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
“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 forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
― The Republic of Thieves
― The Republic of Thieves
“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
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“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.”
― The Republic of Thieves
"'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money.”
― The Republic of Thieves
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