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1 " If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes. "
― Scott Lynch , The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
2 " Locke sighed.'So this is winning,' he said.'It is,' replied Jean. 'It can go fuck itself,' said Locke. "
3 " A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods. "
― Scott Lynch , The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3)
4 " Get used to gaps in your comprehension,” said Sabetha. “The rest of us certainly have. "
5 " Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads.-You're just making that up, Jean. "
― Scott Lynch , Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
6 " There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated. "
7 " Maybe the one real advantage to getting older is that you have the time to pull your head a little bit farther out of your ass. "
8 " Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf. "
― Scott Lynch , Rogues
9 " My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush. "
10 " Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours. Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend. "
11 " A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything's finally in the right place. "
12 " 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 goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all. "
― Scott Lynch
13 " 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. "
14 " I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else! "
15 " We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way! "
16 " Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see. "
17 " I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians. "
18 " 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. "
19 " A glass poured to air for the one who sits with us unseen; the patron and protector, the Crooked Warden, the Father of Necessary Pretexts. Thanks for deep pockets poorly guarded. Thanks for watchmen asleep at their posts. Thanks for the city to nurture us and the night to hide us. Thanks for friends to help us spend the loot. "
20 " To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else! "
