“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”
Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies
Scott Lynch è uno scrittore statunitense. conosciuto principalmente per la serie dei Bastardi Galantuomini.
Abita con la moglie Jenny a Richmond, nel Wisconsin.
Secondo quanto afferma nel suo sito, prima di diventare scrittore ha fatto numerosi altri lavori, tra cui lavapiatti, cameriere, web designer e giornalista freelance. Oltre ad essere scrittore, Scott Lynch è anche pompiere volontario in Minnesota e Wisconsin.
Il suo primo romanzo, Gli inganni di Locke Lamora, è stato acquistato da Simon Spanton della Orion Books ad agosto del 2004 e pubblicato a giugno 2006 in Inghilterra e negli Stati Uniti. Dando inizio alla serie dei Bastardi Galantuomini una sequenza di sette romanzi ambientati nel'impero di Therin, segue la vita del ladro Locke Lamora in un periodo di 15-20 anni. Lynch ha affermato che ci sarà anche un'altra serie, ambientata vent'anni dopo quella dei Bastardi Galantuomini con protagonisti dei nuovi personaggi, anche questa di sette libri.
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“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”
Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies
“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
Origine: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 4 “At the Court of Capa Barsavi” section 5 (p. 219)
Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 2 “Requin” section 3 (p. 93)
Contesto: “I say again, impossible.”
“And I correct you again. Difficult. ‘Difficult’ and ‘impossible’ are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.”
“You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.”
Interlude “Locke Stays for Dinner” section 1 (p. 121)
Origine: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)
“Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind”
Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies
“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”
Origine: The Republic of Thieves
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
Origine: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.”
Origine: The Lies of Locke Lamora
Origine: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 1 (p. 250)
Contesto: Locke put his head in his hands and sighed.
“I don’t expect life to make sense,” he said after a few moments, “but it would certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”
“My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.”
Origine: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.”
Origine: The Republic of Thieves
“What is government but theft by consent?”
Origine: The Republic of Thieves
“I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.”
Origine: The Republic of Thieves
Origine: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 13 “Orchids and Assassins” section 4 (p. 567)
Origine: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 9 “A Curious Tale for Countess Amberglass” section 1 (p. 433)
“I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning”
Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies