Frases de Scott Lynch (138 citações) | Citações e frases famosas

“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”

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Scott Lynch livro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Fonte: Red Seas Under Red Skies

“If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."

[on, July 17, 2012]”

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“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”

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Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Fonte: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 4 “At the Court of Capa Barsavi” section 5 (p. 219)

“Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.”

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Scott Lynch livro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Fonte: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 2 “Requin” section 3 (p. 93)
Contexto: “I say again, impossible.”
“And I correct you again. Difficult. ‘Difficult’ and ‘impossible’ are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.”

“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”

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Scott Lynch livro The Republic of Thieves

Fonte: The Republic of Thieves

“Nice bird, asshole!”

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Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Fonte: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.”

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Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Interlude “Locke Stays for Dinner” section 1 (p. 121)
Fonte: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

“We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.”

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Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Fonte: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“Know something? I'd lay even odds that between the people following us and the people hunting us, we've become this city's principle means of employment. Tal Verrar's entire economy is now based on.”

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Scott Lynch livro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Fonte: Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind”

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Scott Lynch livro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Fonte: Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”

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Scott Lynch livro The Republic of Thieves

Fonte: The Republic of Thieves

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

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Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Fonte: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone… not even to ourselves.”

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Scott Lynch livro The Republic of Thieves

Fonte: The Republic of Thieves

“Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.”

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Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Fonte: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”

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Scott Lynch livro The Republic of Thieves

Fonte: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 1 (p. 250)
Contexto: Locke put his head in his hands and sighed.
“I don’t expect life to make sense,” he said after a few moments, “but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”