“You’re trying to be charming again,” she said softly, “but I do not choose to be charmed, Locke Lamora.”

—  Scott Lynch, book The Republic of Thieves

Interlude “Striking Sparks” section 6 (p. 247)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)

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