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“The sun is up, and all that money out there won’t steal itself.”

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Interlude “The Undrowned Girl” section 1 (p. 69)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)

“Are you really that arrogant, that logic is as optional as a fashion accessory for you?”

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Origine: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 9 “The Five-Year Game: Reasonable Doubt” section 2 (p. 551)

“Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn’t it?”

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Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Interlude “Locke Stays for Dinner” section 1 (p. 125)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

“When you’re a priest, people tend to see the robe rather than the man.”

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Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Interlude “The Half-Crown War” section 1 (p. 414)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

“Commonly thought,’ you say? Many things are commonly thought, but perhaps not commonly thought all the way through.”

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Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Origine: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 9 “A Curious Tale for Countess Amberglass” section 1 (p. 435)

““Yes, I like it a lot, it’s all worth having to bathe, even!”
“Hmmm,” said Chains. “You live long enough for your stones to drop, then tell me if bathing is really such a hardship when the young women around you have bosoms that are more than theoretical.”
“What? When my what?”
“Never mind. That subject will be sufficiently confusing in its own good time.””

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Interlude “The Boy Who Chased Red Dresses” section 1 (pp. 115-116)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)

“”Is this man, ah, senile?”
”He’s absolutely competent,” she answered coldly.
”I assure you I am,” roared Cordo. Anger changed his countenance utterly. ”And I will not be put off from business by assassins in my own bedroom! Now, you will either kill me immediately or negotiate the price of my release!”

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Scott Lynch libro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 16 “Settling Accounts” section 3 (p. 712)

“You’re trying to be charming again,” she said softly, “but I do not choose to be charmed, Locke Lamora.”

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Interlude “Striking Sparks” section 6 (p. 247)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)

“In my dreams I sign chits and file papers,” Nikoros muttered. “Then I awake to sign real chits and file real papers. I imagine my grave marker will be carved as a writing desk. ‘Here lies Nikoros Via Lupa, wifeless and heirless, but gods how he could alphabetize!’”

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Origine: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 10 “The Five-Year Game: Final Approaches” section 5 (p. 582)

“Nikoros, your job this afternoon is to say yes to anything that comes out of my mouth. The more you rehearse this, the sooner it’ll become a smooth mechanical process allowing no time for painful reflection. Can you practice for me?”
“Yes.”

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

“You’re a natural.”
Origine: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 7 (p. 275)

“How you deal with it I must and will leave to you, not out of despair or resignation but in deference to my conscience, that broken clock which I believe is now chiming one of its occasional right hours. I will not question your reasons. It is enough for you to tell me that you wish to keep this distance between us, and it will always be enough. Know that a single word will bring me running, but unless and until it pleases you to give it, I will expect nothing, force nothing, and contrive nothing contrary to your wishes.
I desire you as deeply as I ever have, but I understand that the fervor of a desire is irrelevant to its justice. I want your heart on merit, in mutual trust, or not at all, because I cannot bear to see you made uneasy by me. Not for all the world would I do so again, and I leave it to you to tell me how to proceed, if and when you can, if and when you will.”

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Origine: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 10 “The Five-Year Game: Final Approaches” section 11 (p. 605)

““There were difficulties.”
“Oh,” she said, “so you’re the man whose life develops complications! I’ve so longed to meet you; the rest of us here in this world have it much too easy, I’m afraid.””

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Origine: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 6 “The Five-Year Game: Change of Venue” section 8 (p. 337)

“Next came the sort of kiss that banished the world to distant background noise and seemed to last a month.”

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Origine: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 10 “The Five-Year Game: Final Approaches” section 13 (p. 610)

“I’m losing my taste for subtlety as fast as I’m depleting my supply.”

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Scott Lynch libro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 14 “Scourging the Sea of Brass” section 1 (p. 640)

“Most of us find it starkly ludicrous that the height of all possible ambition, to the ungifted, must be to drape oneself in crowns and robes.”

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Origine: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 4 “Across the Amathel” section 3 (p. 191)

““Liquor does this? Even after you’re sober?”
“A cruel joke, isn’t it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems.””

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Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Interlude “The Last Mistake” section 1 (p. 179)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

“In time, you’ll come to understand that a state like ours cannot afford to offer up a show of weakness for honesty’s sake; Duke Nicovante charges me with vouchsafing his security, not his conscience.”

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Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Epilogue, “Falselight” section 2 (p. 715)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

“”Oh, gods,” he cried. ”Oh, gods protect me! It’s you!”
“Of course it’s me,“ said Locke. “You just don’t know who the hell I am yet.“”

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Scott Lynch libro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 16 “Settling Accounts” sections 2-3 (p. 712)

“I’m going to give you a thorough examination. This may cause some discomfort, but don’t complain. I won’t be listening.”

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Origine: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 1 “Things Get Worse” section 8 (p. 47)

“We already know how too—”
“I don’t care what you think you know, Kosta. Until further notice, we’re gonna presume that you’re too dumb to count to one.”

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Scott Lynch libro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 6 “Balance of Trades” section 2 (p. 291)

“I can’t live forever. Each time something like this affair lands in my lap, I suddenly recall that I don’t want to live forever.”

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Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Epilogue, “Falselight” section 2 (p. 716)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

“People die when they get hanged. It’s why they hang them!”

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Prologue “The Minder” section 8 (p. 19)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)

“I find it best to make corpses of complications.”

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Scott Lynch libro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 13 “Points of Decision” section 2 (p. 587)

““Here's to charming losers, I suppose.“
“If only we knew where to find some.“”

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Scott Lynch libro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 1 “Little Games” section 3 (p. 14)

“I’m not without my sympathies, Lamora. They just don’t necessarily reside with you.”

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Origine: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 6 (p. 270)

“Maybe this is going to complicate the hell out of things. So what? You’re the complication I want more than anything else. You’re my favorite complication.”

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Scott Lynch libro The Republic of Thieves

Origine: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 8 “The Five-Year Game: Infinite Variation” section 2 (p. 449)

““We met five years ago.“ Jean scratched his beard. “On a sea voyage. We became business partners out of sheer boredom. Since then we‘ve been inseparable.“
“Except that my plan calls for me to be plotting your death.“
“Yes, but I don‘t know that, do I? Boon companion! I suspect nothing.“”

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Scott Lynch libro Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Chump! I can hardly wait to see you get yours!“
Reminiscence “Best-Laid Plans” section 1 (pp. 114-115)
Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007)

““What do you have to say to that?“
“Oh, very little, to be sure, Master Kosta. It’s so hard to think, overawed as I am with the sublime genius of your plan.“
“That bears some vague resemblance to sarcasm.“
“God forfend,“ said Jean. “You wound me! Your inexpressible criminal virtues have triumphed again, as inevitably as the tides come and go. I cast myself at your feet and beg for absolution. Yours is the genius that nourishes the heart of the world.“
“And now you’re—“
“If only there was a leper handy,“ interrupted Jean, "so you could lay your hands on and magically heal him.“”

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Scott Lynch libro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 1 “Little Games” section 4 (p. 26)

“Time went by with all the speed of a sleepless night.”

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Scott Lynch libro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 3 “Warm Hospitality” section 3 (p. 124)

“The trouble with creating military dictators, Locke reflected, was getting rid of them after the immediate crisis was past.”

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Scott Lynch libro Red Seas Under Red Skies

Origine: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 1 “Little Games” section 5 (p. 35)

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