"There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated."
- Scott Lynch
"Maybe the one real advantage to getting older is that you have the time to pull your head a little bit farther out of your ass."
"Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf."
"Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture agai..."
"My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush."
"Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours. Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my ..."
"You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you've seized that power, there's no getting off the merry-go-round. You fig..."
"What do you think of the old boy?" said Jean."He's got a strangely sunny view of ten years of defeat", said Locke, "but if I get killed in the next six weeks, I want him to speak at my funeral."
"A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything's finally in the right place."
"What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?''Cherish them and raise them, you imbecile. Most of them end up working for us, in Karthain and elsewhere. What did you t..."