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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. (Scott Lynch)
Next came the sort of kiss that banished the world to distant background noise and seemed to last a month. View quote
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I'm losing my taste for subtlety as fast as I'm depleting my supply. View quote
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Most of us find it starkly ludicrous that the height of all possible ambition, to the ungifted, must be to drape oneself in crowns and robes. View quote
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Liquor does this? Even after you're sober?” "A cruel joke, isn't it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems. View quote
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In time, you'll come to understand that a state like ours cannot afford to offer up a show of weakness for honesty's sake; Duke Nicovante charges me with vouchsafing his security, not his conscience. View quote
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”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." View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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People die when they get hanged. It's why they hang them! View quote
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I find it best to make corpses of complications. (Scott Lynch)
Here's to charming losers, I suppose." "If only we knew where to find some. View quote
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I'm not without my sympathies, Lamora. They just don't necessarily reside with you. View quote
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Maybe this is going to complicate the hell out of things. So what? You're the complication I want more than anything else. You're my favorite complication. View quote
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What do you have to say to that?" "Oh, very little, to be sure, Master Kosta. It's so hard to think, overawed as I am with the sublime genius of your plan." "That bears some vague resemblance to sarcasm." "God forfend," said Jean. "You wound me! Your inexpressible criminal virtues have triumphed again, as inevitably as the tides come and go. I cast myself at your feet and beg for absolution. Yours is the genius that nourishes the heart of the world." "And now you're-" "If only there was a leper handy," interrupted Jean, "so you could lay your hands on and magically heal him. View quote
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Time went by with all the speed of a sleepless night. View quote
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The trouble with creating military dictators, Locke reflected, was getting rid of them after the immediate crisis was past. View quote
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Push your luck, gorgeous, and eventually luck pushes back. View quote
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Gods, all this maneuvering for moral advantage. You'd think we were married. View quote
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You rule the Bondsmagi,” said Locke, incredulously. "Rule is too strong a term. We do occasionally manage to avert total chaos. View quote
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You needed a bath," Jean interrupted. "You were covered in self-pity. (Scott Lynch)
Our patron has always sort of danced upon the notion that austerity and piety go hand in hand; down here, we show our appreciation for things by appreciating, if you get me. View quote
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Refusal noted and cordially declined. View quote
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I don't want you to agree with me; I want you to use your misplaced acorn of a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again. View quote
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Government affairs are a bit beyond our experience,” said Jean. "Nonsense. You'll feel right at home. What is government but theft by consent? You'll be moving in a society of kindred spirits. View quote
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Scott Lynch

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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Author
Born: April 2, 1978
Quotes count: 139
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