Scott Lynch citations

Scott Lynch, né le 2 avril 1978 à Saint Paul dans le Minnesota, est un auteur américain de fantasy. Il est connu pour sa série Les Salauds Gentilshommes qui compte trois tomes publiés sur les sept prévus. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. avril 1978   •   Autres noms 스콧 린치, Սքոթ Լինչ, Скот Линч, اسکات لینچ
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“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”

Scott Lynch livre Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 4 “At the Court of Capa Barsavi” section 5 (p. 219)

“Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.”

Scott Lynch livre Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 2 “Requin” section 3 (p. 93)
Contexte: “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.”

“Nice bird, asshole!”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

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”

Scott Lynch livre Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”

Scott Lynch livre The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves

“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”

Scott Lynch livre The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 1 (p. 250)
Contexte: 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.”

“My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.”

Scott Lynch livre The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves

“What is government but theft by consent?”

Scott Lynch livre The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves

“It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 13 “Orchids and Assassins” section 4 (p. 567)

“I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning”

Scott Lynch livre Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

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