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“I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”

— Scott Lynch A Year and a Day in Old Theradane (2014)

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

The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

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

The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

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

The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

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

The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

“Better to say nothing and be thought a fool,” said Amarelle, “than to interfere in the business of wizards and remove all doubt.”

A Year and a Day in Old Theradane (2014)

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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