Scott Lynch quotes - page 3

We have a new problem, fresh from the oven and hot as hell. (Scott Lynch)

The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

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You're my favorite complication.

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I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

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

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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.

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Better to say nothing and be thought a fool,” said Amarelle, "than to interfere in the business of wizards and remove all doubt.

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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.

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My responsibility was to tell you the truth, not wrap you in swaddling clothes.” She raised her hood again, half-veiling her face in shadow. "Nor protect you from your own badly aimed temper.

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I make it a point never to trust men with weapons to my windpipe.

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Time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think. (Scott Lynch)

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

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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.

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I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise-haven't you?

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That's a sweet piece," said Jean, briefly forgetting to be aggravated. "You didn't snatch that off a street." "No," said Locke, before taking another deep draught of the warm water in the decanter. "I got it from the neck of the governor's mistress." "You can't be serious." "In the governor's manor." "Of all the-" "In the governor's bed." "Damned lunatic!" "With the governor sleeping next to her... It is possible," said Locke with a sheepish grin, "that I have been slightly too bold.

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

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Sabetha threw her own shoes and costume components on the tiles near the bath. She retained only her black hose and a dressing gown. Locke did his best to look like he wasn't staring, and she did an admirable job of pretending she wasn't encouraging him.

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I'm sure we can communicate. I speak fluent hatchet.

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

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

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Are you really that arrogant, that logic is as optional as a fashion accessory for you? (Scott Lynch)

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

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In my dreams I sign chits and file papers,” Nikoros muttered. "Then I awake to sign real chits and file real papers. I imagine my grave marker will be carved as a writing desk. ‘Here lies Nikoros Via Lupa, wifeless and heirless, but gods how he could alphabetize!'

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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.

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There were difficulties.” "Oh,” she said, "so you're the man whose life develops complications! I've so longed to meet you; the rest of us here in this world have it much too easy, I'm afraid.

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