Blanche

“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

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

“The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Too-Clever Fox

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm