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“This is far beyond us,” he had whispered against her skin. Was it beyond them? Who decides what’s out of reach, if not we ourselves?
“most fatal words in the Therin language are ‘Locke would appreciate it.’ ” “Rivaled only by ‘Locke taught me a new trick,’ ” added Galdo. “The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games—” “—is Locke Lamora—” “—because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons—” “—and fifty thousand cheering spectators.” The brothers cleared their throats in unison.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Just think of twenty thousand full crowns and keep strangling me. I can choke all day if I have to.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“So that makes us robbers of robbers,” said Bug, “who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.” “Yes, we do sort of screw the pretty picture up, don’t we?”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“He was in the air before another thought crossed his mind. Arms out, falling backward, staring up into the hot near-noon sky with the confident assurance of all twelve of his years that death and injury were things reserved solely for people that weren’t Bug.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“LOCKE LAMORA’S RULE of thumb was this: a good confidence game took three months to plan, three weeks to rehearse, and three seconds to win or lose the victim’s trust forever. This time around, he planned to spend those three seconds getting strangled.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
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