Scott Lynch Quotes

Nikoros, your job this afternoon is to say yes to anything that comes out of my mouth. The more you rehearse this, the sooner it'll become a smooth mechanical process allowing no time for painful reflection. Can you practice for me?
Yes.
You're a natural.

I’m not without my sympathies, Lamora. They just don’t necessarily reside with you.

Let's be obvious. Me brute, you weasel.
Agreed. You brute, me charming mastermind.

Locke put his head in his hands and sighed.
“I don’t expect life to make sense,” he said after a few moments, “but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”

You're trying to be charming again, she said softly, but I do not choose to be charmed, Locke Lamora.

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

Damn it, when will you learn that refusing to admit you’ve lost isn’t the same as winning?

Most of us find it starkly ludicrous that the height of all possible ambition, to the ungifted, must be to drape oneself in crowns and robes.

You need money that badly?
As a tool, certainly. Its application is simple and universally effective.

They’ll be fine, and wiser for the experience. Young minds are brittle. Oldsters, now, we’ve had some disappointments. We’ve set aside the notion that we’re the center of the universe, so our minds bend with strain instead of meeting it head-on.

I never even liked cats all that much.
Surely you realize, said Patience, that cats are no great respecters of human opinion.

You know, believe it or not, 'the gods will provide' is not a fucking plan, lad. You've got one hell of a talent for improvisation, but when that lets you down, it lets you down hard.

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.

What happened wasn't fair!
Fair? You mean to claim with a straight face that you buy into that heresy, my boy?

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.