“ Can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming 'Your cats! Give us all your god-damned cats! Scott Lynch
“ Caldris led them over to a large covered basket that sat on the stones near the docked dinghy. He undid the cover, reached in and removed a live kitten. "- Hello, you monstrous little necessity". "- M… Scott Lynch
“ What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the Gray king Scott Lynch
“ You’ll pardon me,” he finally said, “if the suggestion that the minuscule black turnip you call a heart is suddenly overflowing with generosity toward me leaves me wanting to arm myself and put my bac… Scott Lynch
“ He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on sur… Scott Lynch
“ The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily the respond to real control. Scott Lynch
“ Didn't Chains tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?""The what?""The single congruent aspect of every known religion. The one shared, universal assumption about the human condition.""What is… Scott Lynch
“ It's things like this makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit life out here can be. Scott Lynch
“ I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians. Scott Lynch
“ Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see. Scott Lynch
“ We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way! Scott Lynch
“ I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet. Scott Lynch
“ You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit. Scott Lynch
“ Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially allowed to write about “girl stuff” without being penalized for doing so. In part this is the same ol… Scott Lynch
“ I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so… Scott Lynch
“ Gods, I love this place," Locke said, drumming his fingers against his thighs. "Sometimes I think this whole city was put here simply because the gods must adore crime. Pickpockets rob the common folk… Scott Lynch
“ What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?''Cherish them and raise them, you imbecile. Most of them end up working for us, in Karthain and elsewhere. What did you t… Scott Lynch
