The trouble with creating military dictators, Locke reflected, was getting rid of them after the immediate crisis was past. - Scott Lynch

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.

Hard lessons were handed out. As many men learned to their sorrow, it’s impossible to be intimidating when one angry woman has your cock between her teeth and another is holding a stiletto to your kidneys.

“When I get this door open, you’re dead, Jean!“
“When you get that door open? I look forward to many long years of life, then.“