Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.
Scott Lynch
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Scott Lynch
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: April 2
Author
Novelist
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Strutting
Conjured
Readily
Authority
Strange
Bits
Nothing
More quotes by Scott Lynch
If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.
Scott Lynch
Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.
Scott Lynch
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.
Scott Lynch
Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads. -You're just making that up, Jean.
Scott Lynch
I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.
Scott Lynch
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.
Scott Lynch
When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.
Scott Lynch
We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.
Scott Lynch
Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?” “On occasion,” said Locke. “There are contrary opinions.
Scott Lynch
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we’re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.
Scott Lynch
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.
Scott Lynch
I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats!
Scott Lynch
Maxilan, darling. Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.
Scott Lynch
Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind
Scott Lynch
My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.
Scott Lynch
Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.
Scott Lynch
A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.
Scott Lynch
I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.
Scott Lynch
You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.
Scott Lynch
To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!
Scott Lynch