Scott Lynch Quotes

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are, we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

~ Scott Lynch

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

~ Scott Lynch

Locke sighed.'So this is winning,' he said.'It is,' replied Jean. 'It can go fuck itself,' said Locke.

~ Scott Lynch

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

~ Scott Lynch

I’m speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There’s powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

~ Scott Lynch

Jean grinned down at her, and she handed him something in a small silk bag.'What's this?''Lock of my hair, ' she said. 'Meant to give it to you days ago, but we got busy with all the raiding. You know. Piracy. Hectic life. ''Thank you, love, ' he said.'Now, if you find yourself in trouble wherever you go, you can hold up that little bag to whoever's bothering you, and you can say, You have no idea who you're fucking with. I'm under the protection of the lady who gave me this object of her favour. ''And that's supposed to make them stop?''Shit no, that's just to confuse them. Then you kill them while they're standing there looking at you funny.

~ Scott Lynch

Get used to gaps in your comprehension,” said Sabetha. “The rest of us certainly have.

~ Scott Lynch

Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads.-You're just making that up, Jean.

~ Scott Lynch

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.

~ Scott Lynch

Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf.

~ Scott Lynch

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

~ Scott Lynch

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 friend.

~ Scott Lynch

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 fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.

~ Scott Lynch

A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything's finally in the right place.

~ Scott Lynch

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 think we'd do, burn them on a pyre?''Forget I asked

~ Scott Lynch

I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all.

~ Scott Lynch

Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially allowed to write about “girl stuff” without being penalized for doing so. In part this is the same old shit it’s always been ... I’ve said before that men who write mostly about men win prizes for revealing the human condition, while women who write about both men and women are filed away as writing “womens’ issues.” Likewise, in fantasy, the imprimatur of a dude somehow makes stuff like romance, relationship drama, introspection, and adorable animal companions magically not girly after all.In a sense, we male fantasists are allowed to be like money launderers for girl coo

~ Scott Lynch

You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.

~ Scott Lynch

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

~ Scott Lynch

I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

~ Scott Lynch

We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!

~ Scott Lynch

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

~ Scott Lynch

If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kr

~ Scott Lynch

I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians.

~ Scott Lynch

It's things like this makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit life out here can be.

~ Scott Lynch

A glass poured to air for the one who sits with us unseen; the patron and protector, the Crooked Warden, the Father of Necessary Pretexts. Thanks for deep pockets poorly guarded. Thanks for watchmen asleep at their posts. Thanks for the city to nurture us and the night to hide us. Thanks for friends to help us spend the loot.

~ Scott Lynch

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

~ Scott Lynch

Didn't Chains tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?The what?The single congruent aspect of every known religion. The one shared, universal assumption about the human condition.What is it?He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that line is actually circular.

~ Scott Lynch

The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily the respond to real control.

~ Scott Lynch

He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.

~ Scott Lynch

You’ll pardon me,” he finally said, “if the suggestion that the minuscule black turnip you call a heart is suddenly overflowing with generosity toward me leaves me wanting to arm myself and put my back against a wall.

~ Scott Lynch

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?One that has something better - Locke Lamora to the Gray king

~ Scott Lynch

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

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Can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming 'Your cats! Give us all your god-damned cats!

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I’m done losing. Do you fucking hear me? I am done losing. Spare me your precious self-pity, because this isn’t a stage and I didn’t pay two coppers to cry my eyes out over anyone’s death speech. You don’t fucking get one, understand? I don’t care if you cough up buckets of blood. Buckets I can carry.

~ Scott Lynch

Gentlemen Bastards. hissed Locke, do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.

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It’s an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid,” said Locke. “Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You’ll find out

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To live the life the gods have given you, you must clutch wisely, then run. Run like the houds of hell on a sinner's scent!

~ Scott Lynch

Sophara scrawled orders on a slate and handed it to one of the libationarians, whose encyclopedic knowledge of the contents and locations of all the bottles kept the bar running.

~ Scott Lynch