The Republic of Thieves

Полное доверие существует безусловно, безоговорочно и неизменно.Это дар, который нельзя отнять, иначе он изначально утратит всякий смысл.

Правительство мало чем отличается от узаконенного воровства.

Всякое оружие — это орудие, но не всякое орудие — оружие.

Если объяснять вполне естественные вещи божественным волеизъявлением, то и все остальное следует объявить чудесами.

Истина является нам в форме, приемлемой для нашего ограниченного разумения. Глаза живых видят загробную жизнь не такой, как она есть, потому что воспринимают ее в соответствии с привычными представлениями.

You`re as welcome as a scorpion in a nursery.

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."

Damn it, when will you learn that refusing to admit you`ve lost isn`t the same as winning?

We`re as human as you are, as complicated, as insecure, as driven to argument. The only difference is that any one of us, out of the mildest irritation, could make someone evaporate into smoke with a gesture.

"It wasn`t fair!" shouted Locke. "It wasn`t a fair test! There was no way to win!"
"That`s life," said Chains. "That`s your one sure inheritance as flesh and blood. Nobody wins all the time, Locke."

"Another test. When do they stop?"
"When you`re buried, my boy."

"You rule the Bondsmagi," said Locke, incredulously.
"Rule is too strong a term. We do occasionally manage to avert total chaos."

Poison is only contagious at dinner parties.

"And I`m not going to let you carry me."
"Not let me carry you? What are you going to fend me off with, sarcasm?"

Gods, I love Camorri. Constitutionally incapable of doing things the easy way.

"Somewhere out there," Jean said, "must be an illness that makes its sufferers meek, mild, and agreeable. I`ll find it someday, and see that you get the worst possible case."
"I`m sure I was born immune."

"The bastard," said Jean as he threw open the door to the suite`s inner apartment. "The motherless Lashani reptile. The greedy son of a piss-bucket and a bad fart."
"My keen grasp of subtle nuance tells me you might be frustrated," said Locke.

и начали пить – не с разгульным буйством, а с тихим упорством, как люди, которые чудом сохранили глотки, в которые можно заливать эль.