“I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!”
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
Variant: To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!
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The Lies of Locke Lamora is a 2006 fantasy novel by American writer Scott Lynch, the first book of the Gentleman Bastard series. Elite con artists calling themselves the "Gentleman Bastards" rob the rich of the city of Camorr, based on late medieval Venice but on an unnamed world. Two stories interweave: in the present, the Gentleman Bastards fight a mysterious Gray King taking over the criminal underworld; alternate chapters describe the history of Camorr and the Gentleman Bastards, in particular protagonist Locke Lamora.
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 9 “A Curious Tale for Countess Amberglass” section 1 (p. 433)
“The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games—” “—is Locke Lamora—”
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“What thief does not fight to hold what he has?"
"One that has something better," said Locke.”
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
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“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)
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
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“Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.”
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
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