“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”
Źródło: Red Seas Under Red Skies
Scott Lynch – amerykański pisarz fantasy, znany z serii o Niecnych Dżentelmenach.
“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”
Źródło: Red Seas Under Red Skies
“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
Źródło: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 4 “At the Court of Capa Barsavi” section 5 (p. 219)
Źródło: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 2 “Requin” section 3 (p. 93)
Kontekst: “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.”
“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)
Źródło: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)
“Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind”
Źródło: Red Seas Under Red Skies
“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”
Źródło: The Republic of Thieves
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
Źródło: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.”
Źródło: The Lies of Locke Lamora
Źródło: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 1 (p. 250)
Kontekst: 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.”
Źródło: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.”
Źródło: The Republic of Thieves
“What is government but theft by consent?”
Źródło: The Republic of Thieves
“I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.”
Źródło: The Republic of Thieves
Źródło: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 13 “Orchids and Assassins” section 4 (p. 567)
Źródło: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 9 “A Curious Tale for Countess Amberglass” section 1 (p. 433)
“I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning”
Źródło: Red Seas Under Red Skies