Scott Lynch: Cytaty po angielsku
“You're my favorite complication.”
The Republic of Thieves
“Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they’re after an image, not a person.”
Interlude “Striking Sparks” section 6 (p. 247)
Źródło: The Republic of Thieves (2013)
“I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!”
Wariant: To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!
Źródło: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games—” “—is Locke Lamora—”
Źródło: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming.”
Źródło: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 11 “All Else, Truth” section 9 (p. 528)
Źródło: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 4 “Across the Amathel” section 1 (p. 184)
In George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois (eds.) Rogues (p. 245)
Short fiction, A Year and a Day in Old Theradane (2014)
Źródło: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 2 “Requin” section 4 (pp. 100-101)
Źródło: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 5 “On a Clockwork River” section 4 (p. 253)
Źródło: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 9 “The Five-Year Game: Reasonable Doubt” section 2 (p. 551)
Interlude “The Boy Who Chased Red Dresses” section 1 (p. 115)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)
“I make it a point never to trust men with weapons to my windpipe.”
Prologue “A Strained Conversation” (p. 2)
Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007)
““What’s your hand look like?“
“A parched desert… How’s yours?“
“A wasteland of bitter frustration.“”
Źródło: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 1 “Little Games” section 1 (p. 7)
“You have confused me with someone who knows what’s going on.”
Źródło: Short fiction, A Year and a Day in Old Theradane (2014), p. 251
“Time’s a river, Locke, and we’ve always drifted farther down it than we think.”
Interlude “Up the River” section 2 (p. 392)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)
“I never would’ve thought—“
“Don’t think,” said Locke. “I’m paid to do that for you.”
Źródło: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 6 “The Five-Year Game: Change of Venue” section 1 (p. 311)
““Let’s be obvious. Me brute, you weasel.”
“Agreed. You brute, me charming mastermind.””
Źródło: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 2 (p. 254)
Reminiscence “The Capa of Vel Virazzo” section 5 (p. 65)
Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007)
“I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise—haven’t you?”
Źródło: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 15 “Spiderbite” section 5 (p. 636)
Reminiscence “The Capa of Vel Virazzo” section 6 (pp. 70-71)
Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007)
“Damn it, when will you learn that refusing to admit you’ve lost isn’t the same as winning?”
Interlude “Striking Sparks” section 2 (p. 233)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)
“Only gods-damned fools die for lines drawn on maps.”
Źródło: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 11 “All Else, Truth” section 5 (p. 513)
““Thank you very much, sir,” said Beth with nothing resembling actual gratitude.”
Prologue “The Minder” section 5 (p. 10)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)
Interlude “Death Masks” section 8 (p. 639)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)
“I’m sure we can communicate. I speak fluent hatchet.”
Źródło: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 10 “Teeth Lessons” section 2 (p. 457)
Źródło: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 4 “Across the Amathel” section 3 (p. 190)
“I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”
Źródło: Short fiction, A Year and a Day in Old Theradane (2014), p. 258