“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 don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”
― The Republic of Thieves
― The Republic of Thieves
“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
“On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.”
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