Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)

by Scott Lynch

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

“There’s altogether too much of this stuff not yet in me. Get a glass and join in. I want to be a barking public embarrassment as soon as possible.”

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“Maybe I’ll just hold fast after this bottle,” said Locke. “Hold fast is a nautical—” “I know,” said Locke. “I’ll kill myself later.”

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“Gamblers play just as lovers make love and drunkards drink—blindly and of necessity, under domination of an irresistible force.”

So this is what a command is. Staring consequences in the eye and pretending not to flinch. “Jean,” he whispered, crouching over the bigger man where he sat on the deck.