35 Quotes About Locke-lamora

I've got kids that enjoy stealing. I've got kids that don't think about stealing one way or the other, and I've got kids that just tolerate stealing because they know they've got nothing else to do. But nobody--and I mean nobody--has ever been hungry for it like this boy. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing. He...steals too much.

You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.

What kind of knife is this?” Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains’ inspection. “It’s all wrong. You couldn’t kill anyone with this.

You've got that motherly concern in your eyes, Jean. I must look like I'm hammered as shit," said Locke."Actually you look like you were executed last week.

I'm not gong to kill you," said Locke I'm going to play a little game I like to call 'Scream in pain until you answer my fucking questions.

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better," said Locke.

It must be nice to be righteous; from where I stand it looks like fucking lunacy.

Jassaline's little potion seems to have brought up every meal I've had in the past five years." said Locke."Nothing left to spit up but my naked soul. Make sure it isn't floating around in one of those before you toss them, right?""I think I see it," Jean said. "Nasty, crooked little thing it is too; you're better off with it floating out to sea.

Jean," Locke gasped out during a brief lull between spasms of retching, "next time I conceive a plan like this, consider putting a hatchet in my skull.""Hardly efficacious." Jean swapped a full bucket for an empty one and gave Locke a friendly pat on the back. "Dulling my nice sharp blades on a skull as thick as yours...