328 Quotes by Scott Lynch

Why do you assume it’s something you’ve done, and something you can undo at will? I’m not some arithmetic problem just waiting for you to show your work properly, Locke. Did.

They sat in companionable silence for a few moments after that, while the sun settled into its downward arc in the west and long shadows began to creep across the face of the city.

His remorse and better judgment arrived, late as usual, like party guests riding in just after the social disaster of the season has already erupted.

You’re a difficult woman, Sabetha. But then, difficult women are the only ones worth falling in love with.

After all, poison is only contagious at dinner parties.

Let us speak behind our hands, lest our lips be read as the book of our designs, and let us find some place where only gods and rats may hear our words aloud.

That’s great, Jean. I’m not just exiled; I’m being plumped up for slaughter.

He was bewildered at how quickly he had escaped his old life and fallen into this new one with strangely pleasant crazy people.

I don’t get it,’ said Locke, gently tugging at the scruff of Regal’s neck. ‘I never even liked cats all that much.’ ‘Surely you realize,’ said Patience, ’that cats are no great respecters of human opinion.