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“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies
“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 4 “At the Court of Capa Barsavi” section 5 (p. 219)
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 2 “Requin” section 3 (p. 93)
Context: “I say again, impossible.”
“And I correct you again. Difficult. ‘Difficult’ and ‘impossible’ are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.”
Interlude “Locke Stays for Dinner” section 1 (p. 121)
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)
“Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind”
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies
“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 1 (p. 250)
Context: Locke put his head in his hands and sighed.
“I don’t expect life to make sense,” he said after a few moments, “but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”