Top 37 Locke Lamora Quotes
#1. Well, if only I wasn't too much the gentleman to flay your spirit with a witty and cutting retort, madam, you'd be ... thoroughly ... um, wittily retorted at this very instant. - Locke Lamora
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#2. Go forth now and live, Locke Lamora. Live, uncertain.
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#3. I shall give you a little prophecy, Locke Lamora, as best as I have seen it.
'Three things you must take up and three things you must lose before you die: a key, a crown, a child.' Patience pushed her hood up over her head. 'You will die when a silver rain falls.
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#4. The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games - " " - is Locke Lamora -
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#5. Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.
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#6. Sloppy idiot," Sabetha muttered at last. "You're trying to be charming. Well, I do not choose to be charmed by you, Locke Lamora.
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#7. Such audacity could never be faked - Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.
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#8. It must be nice to be righteous; from where I stand it looks like fucking lunacy.
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#9. I'm fit and I'm angry, and I'm obviously crazy. Anything could happen.
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#10. He withdrew then, leaving [him] standing in the bloody morning sunlight, leaving him all alone at the heart of his fortress, for the second time, with nothing but a corpse for company.
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#11. All apologies for getting most of your fortune buried under shit. I hope we can all still be friends.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. We have a new problem, fresh from the oven and hot as hell.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.
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#17. What thief does not fight to hold what he has?"
"One that has something better," said Locke.
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#19. Well, cheer up. At least you've got more mobility than a fucking tadpole on dry land.
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#20. Oh gods, Jean. Take a false name wherever we end up. Tavrin Callas is good. Let the bastard pop up all over the place.
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#21. The world moved in horrifying slow motion; Locke, who was no stranger to a beating, was cursed with the uncanny ability to recognize one just before it ceased to be theoretical.
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#22. I don't have to fight or run," [Locke] cackled. "I changed the rules of the game. I just have to keep you here ... asshole.
Here ... until ... Jean gets back.
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#23. Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.
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#24. If your father says 'Bark like a dog,' I say 'What breed, Your Honor?
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#25. We want what we want. We don't need to justify it. And we can take it, we should. I want you, and I'm taking you.
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#26. In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.
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#27. When you see the Crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell him that Lock Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.
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#29. That sounds dangerous,'said Jean.
'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.'
'We?'
'We.
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#30. [W]hen you find yourself face to face with one [Bondsmage], you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.'
...
'Nice bird, asshole,' said Locke.
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#31. There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.
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#32. 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.
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#33. We go now," said Locke, "or I leave you here to die. Understanding is a luxury; you don't get to have it. Sorry.
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#34. Hope is what we all build lives for ourselves upon, is it not?
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#35. Locke moaned.
'Quit sobbing, you damn baby,' Jean hissed as he began to lope back along the dock. 'You must have at least a half beer glass of blood left somewhere in there.'
But Locke was now well and truly unconscious ...
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#36. You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.
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#37. I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?"
"I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.
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