"There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated."
"There are only three people in life you can never fool - pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm bullshit-proof."
"I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up."
"'I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished,' Locke whispered. 'There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?'"
"When you don't know everything that you could know, it's a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite."
"If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes."
"Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks."
"'What kind of knife is this?' Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. 'It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this.'"
"'So that makes us robbers,' said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.'"
"'Fuckdamn,' said Conte, totally unable to help himself when the sums involved vanished over his mental horizon. 'Beg pardon, Dona Sofia.'
'You should.' She drained her snifter in one quick unladylike gulp. 'Your calculations are off. This merits a triple fuckdamn at the very least.'"
"'You wound us, madam,' said Calo. 'We're harmless as kittens.'
'More so,' said Galdo. 'Kittens have claws and piss on things indiscriminately.'"
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