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Quotes from The Lies of Locke Lamora — Scott Lynch

born 1978 United States

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When you’re a priest, people tend to see the robe rather than the man.

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I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise—haven’t you?

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You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.

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There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

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“‘Commonly thought,’ you say? Many things are commonly thought, but perhaps not commonly thought all the way through.”

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Time’s a river, Locke, and we’ve always drifted farther down it than we think.

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“This entire situation is insane.” Jean slammed his book shut in disgust.
“It was insane before; now it’s become malicious.”

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Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn’t it?

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It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

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In time, you’ll come to understand that a state like ours cannot afford to offer up a show of weakness for honesty’s sake; Duke Nicovante charges me with vouchsafing his security, not his conscience.

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“Liquor does this? Even after you’re sober?”
“A cruel joke, isn’t it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems.”

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I can’t live forever. Each time something like this affair lands in my lap, I suddenly recall that I don’t want to live forever.

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I’m sure we can communicate. I speak fluent hatchet.

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Our patron has always sort of danced upon the notion that austerity and piety go hand in hand; down here, we show our appreciation for things by appreciating, if you get me.

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“Advice,” chuckled Doña Vorchenza. “The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one’s mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you’re a nag. Give it at seventy and you’re a sage.”

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Hard lessons were handed out. As many men learned to their sorrow, it’s impossible to be intimidating when one angry woman has your cock between her teeth and another is holding a stiletto to your kidneys.

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Attribution

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