Scott Lynch Quotes

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

I’m speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion t...

You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches w...

I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.

Sophara scrawled orders on a slate and handed it to one of the libationarians, whose encyclopedic kn...

Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf.

Caldris led them over to a large covered basket that sat on the stones near the docked dinghy. He un...

Am I making myself clear, Orrin? I don't regret how I've lived these past few years. I move where I ...

Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours. Your night is my cloak, my shield, m...

Can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, sc...

It's things like this makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit l...

Advice," Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting on...

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look lik...

Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can dr...

Didn't Chains tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?""The what?""The single congruent aspe...

Get used to gaps in your comprehension,” said Sabetha. “The rest of us certainly have.

You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because ...

It’s an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid,” said Locke....

We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.

I’m done losing. Do you fucking hear me? I am done losing. Spare me your precious self-pity, because...

We don’t see the life after life as it truly is, because in our eyes it conforms to our mechanics of...

To live the life the gods have given you, you must clutch wisely, then run. Run like the houds of he...

What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?''Cherish them and rai...

Maybe the one real advantage to getting older is that you have the time to pull your head a little b...

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the...

When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a ...

What do you think of the old boy?" said Jean."He's got a strangely sunny view of ten years of defeat...

A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything's finall...

Gods, I love this place," Locke said, drumming his fingers against his thighs. "Sometimes I think th...

In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, s...

You’ll pardon me,” he finally said, “if the suggestion that the minuscule black turnip you call a he...

Yes," said Locke."Yes, Master Ibelius. I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man...

A glass poured to air for the one who sits with us unseen; the patron and protector, the Crooked War...

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

What kind of knife is this?” Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains’ inspection. “It’s...

... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it.""Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love fo...

We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t bel...

Locke sighed.'So this is winning,' he said.'It is,' replied Jean. 'It can go fuck itself,' said Lock...

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengea...

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the...

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civili...

I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price th...

Jean grinned down at her, and she handed him something in a small silk bag.'What's this?''Lock of my...

That's a sweet piece," said Jean, briefly forgetting to be aggravated. "You didn't snatch that off a...

Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first ...

Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with ...

I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of conf...

If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about...

Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially a...

The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily the respond to real control.

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.