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That I wasn’t interested in him because I’d never been interested in anybody.
“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.”
“Oh please,” said Locke. “It’ll never happen.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Oh please,” said Locke. “It’ll never happen.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
“I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized."
Everyone in the room stared at him.
"I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
Everyone in the room stared at him.
"I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“You are beyond mad," said Locke after several moments of silent, furious thought. "Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss to which you may not aspire. Men living in gutters and drinking their own piss would shun your company. You are a prancing lunatic.”
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
― Red Seas Under Red Skies
“Nice bird, asshole!”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
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