The Lies Of Locke Lamora Quotes

#1. 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.

Scott Lynch

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

Scott Lynch

#3. Hope is what we all build lives for ourselves upon, is it not?

Scott Lynch

#4. We go now," said Locke, "or I leave you here to die. Understanding is a luxury; you don't get to have it. Sorry.

Scott Lynch

#5. You don't have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.

Scarlett Pomers

#6. High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.

Martin Seligman

#7. We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#8. Self-stimulation? No! That wouldn't cut it! The only cure for her overactive hormones was a good old fashion screw.

Maria Cox

#9. Beer now,bitch later.

Scott Lynch

#10. There will always be a they in your new life, Meira. They make decisions; they mold your future. The trick is to find a way to still be you through it all." "Are

Sara Raasch

#11. I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.

Nalo Hopkinson

#12. If your father says 'Bark like a dog,' I say 'What breed, Your Honor?

Scott Lynch

#13. Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.

Scott Lynch

#14. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Flattery:
One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Idries Shah

#15. 'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth?

Gautama Buddha

#16. If God is anonymous, let it be.

Santosh Kalwar

#17. What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.

Alfred Korzybski

#18. I was every stack of books, forever shifting and pounding and being pushed and rearranged but remaining essentially the same; I was every book in every stack.

Ben Stephenson