Kendall

“Jean grinned down at her, and she handed him something in a small silk bag.
'What's this?'
'Lock of my hair, ' she said. 'Meant to give it to you days ago, but we got busy with all the raiding. You know. Piracy. Hectic life. '
'Thank you, love, ' he said.
'Now, if you find yourself in trouble wherever you go, you can hold up that little bag to whoever's bothering you, and you can say, "You have no idea who you're fucking with. I'm under the protection of the lady who gave me this object of her favour. "'
'And that's supposed to make them stop?'
'Shit no, that's just to confuse them. Then you kill them while they're standing there looking at you funny.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“She runs. Not away, but toward.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“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.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“All of you, get off my damned window now!"

"Shit," Locke muttered from a few feet above and to her left, his eloquence temporarily frightened into submission. "Madam, you're complicating our night, so before we come in and complicate yours, kindly cork you bullshit bottle and close the gods-damned window!"

She looked up, aghast. "Two of you? All of you, get down, get down, get down!"

"Close your window, close your window, close your fucking window!"

"I'll kill both you shitsuckers' huffed Fernez 'I'll drop both you off this fucking--"

There was a marrow-chillingly loud cracking noise, and the trellis shuddered beneath the hands of three men clinging to it.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora