“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies
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Red Seas Under Red Skies
Red Seas Under Red Skies is a fantasy novel by American writer Scott Lynch, the second book in the Gentleman Bastard series. It continues the adventures of protagonist Locke Lamora and his friend Jean Tannen as they arrive on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar, where they must face the dangers of their past, as well as new rivals that wish to stop them at all costs while they try to pull their most ambitious con yet.
“You’re ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.”
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 8 “Summer’s End” section 5 (p. 396)
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“Congratulations! We’re reverse burglars, here to give you fifty gold solari!”
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“Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind”
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies
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.”
“It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming.”
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 11 “All Else, Truth” section 9 (p. 528)
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 2 “Requin” section 4 (pp. 100-101)
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 5 “On a Clockwork River” section 4 (p. 253)
“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)
