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Quotes from Red Seas Under Red Skies — Scott Lynch

born 1978 United States

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I make it a point never to trust men with weapons to my windpipe.

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Some mysteries are better off with their throats slit.

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Only gods-damned fools die for lines drawn on maps.

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I find it best to make corpses of complications.

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You’re ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.

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By rights he was still outrunning his age, still ahead of most men nearing threescore years, but he knew deep in his heart that there would never be any way of running fast enough.

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I’m losing my taste for subtlety as fast as I’m depleting my supply.

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The trouble with creating military dictators, Locke reflected, was getting rid of them after the immediate crisis was past.

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Time went by with all the speed of a sleepless night.

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It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming.

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Master Kosta...What a pleasure! Selendri tells me you’ve expressed an interest in getting killed.

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I don’t want you to agree with me; I want you to use your misplaced acorn of a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again.

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“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.”

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“You needed a bath,“ Jean interrupted. “You were covered in self-pity.“

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“We already know how too—”
“I don’t care what you think you know, Kosta. Until further notice, we’re gonna presume that you’re too dumb to count to one.”

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“What’s your hand [of cards] look like?“
“A parched desert...How’s yours?“
“A wasteland of bitter frustration.“

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“I suspect that drink has made you impulsive.“
“Drink makes me see funny; the gods made me impulsive.“

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“Here's to charming losers, I suppose.“
“If only we knew where to find some.“

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“When I get this door open, you’re dead, Jean!“
“When you get that door open? I look forward to many long years of life, then.“

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As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It‘s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Scott Lynch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.