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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #4
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #5
    Stephen        King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #7
    Scott Lynch
    “What kind of knife is this?鈥� Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains鈥� inspection. 鈥淚t鈥檚 all wrong. You couldn鈥檛 kill anyone with this.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #8
    Scott Lynch
    “My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #9
    Scott Lynch
    “So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #10
    Scott Lynch
    “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.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #11
    Scott Lynch
    “It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #12
    Scott Lynch
    “But you didn't die."
    "Clever lad, to deduce that from such slender evidence after living with me for just three years.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #13
    Scott Lynch
    “You鈥檒l pardon me,鈥� he finally said, 鈥渋f 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, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #14
    Scott Lynch
    “I'm fit and I'm angry, and I'm obviously crazy. Anything could happen.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #15
    Scott Lynch
    “One night a powerful sorcerer knocks on the door of a less-powerful sorcerer. "I'm starting an exclusive guild," he says. "Join me now or I'll blast you out of your fucking boots right where you stand." So naturally the second mage says...

    "You know, I've always wanted to join a guild!"

    Right. Those two go bother a third sorcerer. "Join the guild," they say, "or fight both of us, two on one, right here and right now." Repeat as necessary, until three or four hundred guild members are knocking on the door of the last independent mage around, and everyone who said no is dead.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #16
    Scott Lynch
    “I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise鈥攈aven鈥檛 you?”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #17
    Scott Lynch
    “If these things are alchemical," said Sofia, "I'd better be the one to have a look at them."

    "If it could be dangerous, I'm going as well," said Lorenzo.

    "And me," said Conte

    "Great! We can all go! It'll be fun!" Locke waved his tied hands at the door. "But hurry it up, for fucks sake.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #18
    Scott Lynch
    “Oh gods, Jean. Take a false name wherever we end up. Tavrin Callas is good. Let the bastard pop up all over the place.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #19
    Scott Lynch
    “Nervy little Shades' Hill purse-clutcher, thinking you can keep me in the dark. What plan?"
    "The plan to steal a corpse."
    "Ahem. Anything else you'd like to tell me about it?"
    "It's brilliant.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
    tags: plans

  • #20
    Scott Lynch
    “I鈥檓 very pleased. Very, very pleased. But I really must ask鈥攚hy the hell have men and women been throwing money in my kettle for the past half hour, telling me they鈥檙e sorry for what happened in the Videnza?鈥� 鈥淚t鈥檚 because they鈥檙e sorry for what happened in the Videnza,鈥� said Galdo.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #21
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #22
    Leigh Bardugo
    “It's not natural for women to fight."
    "It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #23
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. 鈥淔ine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I鈥檓 going to get Wylan鈥檚 ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.鈥�
    Brekker鈥檚 lips quirked. 鈥淚鈥檒l just hire Matthias鈥� ghost to kick your ghost鈥檚 ass.鈥�
    鈥淢y ghost won鈥檛 associate with your ghost,鈥� Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #24
    Leigh Bardugo
    “He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #25
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won鈥檛 you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #26
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Besides, she was the Wraith 鈥� the only law that applied to her was gravity, and some days she defied that, too.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #27
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Saints, Kaz, you actually look happy."
    "Don't be ridiculous," he snapped. But there was no mistaking it. Kaz Brekker was grinning like an idiot.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #28
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Oh, I see. I'm the wicked Grisha seductress. I have beguiled you with my Grisha wiles!"
    She poked him in the chest.
    "Stop that."
    "No. I'm beguiling you.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #29
    Leigh Bardugo
    “You love trickery."
    "I love puzzles. Trickery is just my native tongue.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #30
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #31
    Leigh Bardugo
    “You'll get what's coming to you some day, Brekker."
    "I will," said Kaz, "if there's any justice in the world. And we all know how likely that is.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows



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