Scott Lynch
Quotes
“Liquor does this? Even after you’re sober?”
“A cruel joke, isn’t it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems.”
p. 179
When you’re a priest, people tend to see the robe rather than the man.
p. 414
”Oh, gods,” he cried. ”Oh, gods protect me! It’s you!”
“Of course it’s me,“ said Locke. “You just don’t know who the hell I am yet.“
p. 712
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It‘s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.
p. 100
“I suspect that drink has made you impulsive.“
“Drink makes me see funny; the gods made me impulsive.“
p. 29
Some mysteries are better off with their throats slit.
p. 95
The trouble with creating military dictators, Locke reflected, was getting rid of them after the immediate crisis was past.
p. 35
I can’t live forever. Each time something like this affair lands in my lap, I suddenly recall that I don’t want to live forever.
p. 716
Only gods-damned fools die for lines drawn on maps.
p. 513
It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming.
p. 528
You’re ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.
p. 396
Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn’t it?
p. 125
