Scott Lynch Quotes

Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they’re after an image, not a person.

I’m losing my taste for subtlety as fast as I’m depleting my supply.

By rights he was still outrunning his age, still ahead of most men nearing threescore years, but he knew deep in his heart that there would never be any way of running fast enough.

”Oh, gods,” he cried. ”Oh, gods protect me! It’s you!”
“Of course it’s me,“ said Locke. “You just don’t know who the hell I am yet.“

Yes, I like it a lot, it's all worth having to bathe, even!
Hmmm, said Chains. You live long enough for your stones to drop, then tell me if bathing is really such a hardship when the young women around you have bosoms that are more than theoretical.
What? When my what?
Never mind. That subject will be sufficiently confusing in its own good time.

Government affairs are a bit beyond our experience, said Jean.
Nonsense. You'll feel right at home. What is government but theft by consent? You'll be moving in a society of kindred spirits.

The sun is up, and all that money out there won’t steal itself.

It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming.

Push your luck, gorgeous, and eventually luck pushes back.

I find it best to make corpses of complications.

I never would've thought—
Don't think, said Locke. I'm paid to do that for you.

Maybe this is going to complicate the hell out of things. So what? You’re the complication I want more than anything else. You’re my favorite complication.

I can’t live forever. Each time something like this affair lands in my lap, I suddenly recall that I don’t want to live forever.

Time went by with all the speed of a sleepless night.

“Thank you very much, sir,” said Beth with nothing resembling actual gratitude.