Scott Lynch Quotes

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

You rule the Bondsmagi, said Locke, incredulously.
Rule is too strong a term. We do occasionally manage to avert total chaos.

Gods, all this maneuvering for moral advantage. You’d think we were married.

I’m going to give you a thorough examination. This may cause some discomfort, but don’t complain. I won’t be listening.

Refusal noted and cordially declined.

People die when they get hanged. It’s why they hang them!

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

Is this man, ah, senile?
He's absolutely competent, she answered coldly.
I assure you I am, roared Cordo. Anger changed his countenance utterly. And I will not be put off from business by assassins in my own bedroom! Now, you will either kill me immediately or negotiate the price of my release!

”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.“

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

I find it best to make corpses of complications.

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

Only gods-damned fools die for lines drawn on maps.

You’re ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.

We already know how too—
I don't care what you think you know, Kosta. Until further notice, we're gonna presume that you're too dumb to count to one.