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101 " Listen, if you walk into a whorehouse and find yourself getting sucked off, it’s because you put some money on the counter, not because the gods transported a pair of lips to your cock. "
― Scott Lynch , The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3)
102 " I mean, wouldn’t it be grand, to have a legend that grew while you were alive to enjoy it? To sit in a tavern and hear all the people around you speaking of what you’d done, with no notion that you were among them as flesh and blood? "
103 " Hey,” said Locke, scratching his stubble absently with his quill. “That sounds suspiciously like wisdom, damn your eyes. Why must you always flounce about being wiser than me?” “Doesn’t require much conscious effort. "
104 " There was no point in stealing well or wisely if the loot couldn't be stashed somewhere safe. "
105 " Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?” “On occasion,” said Locke. “There are contrary opinions.” “Are you more dangerous than a cow? A chicken? A sheep?” “Let’s be generous and say yes. "
106 " May they all be stricken with the screaming fire-shits.” He sipped his "
107 " Enthusiasm is the first step, Artfulness comes later. "
108 " That’s great, Jean. I’m not just exiled; I’m being plumped up for slaughter. "
109 " What thieves of wonder are these poor senses. "
110 " I desire you as deeply as I ever have, but I understand that the fervor of a desire is irrelevant to its justice. "
111 " That’s … a really incredible metaphor, Jean, but I think I could use some help translating it.” “What I’m saying is, we have a duty to accept on faith, but also a duty to weigh and judge. Once you insist that some mundane thing was actually the miraculous hand of the gods, why not treat everything that way? When you start finding messages from the heavens in your breakfast sausages, you’ve thrown aside your responsibility to use your head. If the gods wanted credulous idiots for priests, why wouldn’t they make you that way when you were chosen? "
112 " Can you tell me why I’m here?” “You ran out of sheep to fuck and went looking for some action?” “Gods, I love Camorri. Constitutionally incapable of doing things the easy way.” Cortessa slapped Jean hard enough to make his eyes water. “Try again. Why am I here?” “You heard,” Jean gasped, “that we’d finally discovered the cure for being born with a face like a stray dog’s ass.” “No. If that were true you would have used it.” Cortessa "
113 " I shall grind your bones to powder,” he hollered, transfixing the three Gentlemen Bastards with his gleaming eyes. “And with that dust I’ll make cement for paving stones, and for a hundred years to come you’ll have no rest beneath the crush of strange wheels and the tramp of strange boots! Drunkards will make their unclean water upon you, and I shall laugh to think of it, "
114 " How would you be able to detect a fart over your natural odor, Sanza?” “For shame,” said Galdo. “There’s no Sanzas here, remember? I’m an Asino.” “Oh yes,” said Locke with a yawn. “Yes, you certainly are. "
115 " I don’t get it,’ said Locke, gently tugging at the scruff of Regal’s neck. ‘I never even liked cats all that much.’ ‘Surely you realize,’ said Patience, ‘that cats are no great respecters of human opinion. "
116 " Heavens," said Galdo in a deep, dramatic voice, "only one man living could have squeezed forth such a gleaming brown jewel-- this is the work of Squatting Calo, the Midnight Shitter! "
117 " I'm just... enjoying the floor. It was kind enough to catch me when I fell. "
118 " 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. "
119 " You’re the complication I want more than anything else. You’re my favorite complication. No matter what sort of holes you poke in my trust. "
120 " Carrying a proper sword, is he? Those well-fed types do tend to crowd their breeches, or so I hear. "