Endure for another day, Mister Tanner, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink.

— Scott Lynch

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

— Scott Lynch

For Calo, Waldo, and Bug

— Scott Lynch

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

— Scott Lynch

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

— Scott Lynch

Gods, I love this place," Locke said, drumming his fingers against his thighs. "Sometimes I think this whole city was put here simply because the gods must adore crime. Pickpockets rob the common folk, merchants rob anyone they can dupe, Cap Bars robs the robbers and the common folk, the lesser nobles rob nearly everyone, and Duke Nicotine occasionally runs off with his army and robs the shit out of Tail Gerard or Farm, not to mention what he does to his own nobles and his common folk.

— Scott Lynch

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

— 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

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

— Scott Lynch

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

— Scott Lynch