The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)

by Scott Lynch

“Magnificent. I’ll plant him in the fucking ground and grow a vine to an enchanted land beyond the clouds.”

I’m the architect of his current troubles;

Gonna remember this like for later use.

“Someday, Locke Lamora,” he said, “someday, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope I’m still around to see it.”