Quotes from The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Once again I forgot to mark down my own favorite quotes, so I'm just stealing all of these from the goodreads page and tumblr.

"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.'"

Quotes from Code Name Verity (SPOILER FREE)

Unfortunately, I didn't mark any in my book as I was reading, so I pulled all of these off goodreads.

"It's like being in love, discovering your best friend."

"A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH."

"It's awful, telling it like this, isn't it? As though we didn't know the ending. As though it could have another ending. It's like watching Romeo drink poison. Every time you see it you get fooled into thinking his girlfriend might wake up and stop him. Every single time you see it you want to shout, 'You stupid ass, just wait a minute,' and she'll open her eyes! 'Oi, you, you twat, open your eyes, wake up! Don't die this time!' But they always do."

"Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution."

"And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will."

"Careless talk costs lives."

"Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on."

"I don't believe for a minute - that we wouldn't have become friends somehow - that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely."

"We make a sensational team."

"Von Linden really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity."

"KISS ME HARDY, kiss me, QUICK!"

Quotes from Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

First, let me apologize, because I don't have nearly as many quotes as I would like. This is a beautiful book, and I could in all honest just re-write the entire book here and it would all be beautiful quotes. Unfortunately, I only took down a few of the ones that grabbed my attention, so here they are (I also apologize for the awkward highlighting, my computer's being funky and I need to get back to reading):

“My mother and father held hands. I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries in the universe in someone’s hand.” 

“Dante had this look on his face. He looked like an angel. And all I wanted to do was put my fist through his jaw. I couldn’t stand my own cruelty.”

“I’d figured something out about myself: on the inside, I wasn’t like my dad at all. On the inside I was more like Dante. That really scared me.”

“Probably, beer wasn’t good for boys either. But, you know, I was experimenting. You know, discovering the secrets of the universe. Not that I thought I’d find the secrets of the universe in a Budweiser.” 

“‘I’ll never lie to you about anything,’  he said
‘I might lie to you,’ I said. And then we laughed. And I thought, Maybe this will be the summer where there is nothing but laughter. Maybe this will be the summer.”

“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”

“The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop. I knew that a part of him would never be the same. They cracked more than his ribs.” 

“I thought of what my mom had said. ‘You talk like a man.’ It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.”