Locke Lamora'nın Yalanları

Thanks for your cooperation, here`s a complimentary knife in the back for all of you.

Locke tried to argue with her for form`s sake, but the old lady grew conviniently deaf for a few crucial seconds.

"What plan?"
"The plan to steal a corpse."
"Ahem. Anything else you`d like to tell me about it?"
"It`s brilliant."

"I trust my points are noted," said Jean.
"Very noted," said Locke. "Received, recognized, and duly considered with the utmost gravity. Sealed, notarized, and firmly imprinted upon my rational essence."

"Look," said Locke, "the more we do this, the more I learn about what I think Chains was really training us for. And this is it. He wasn`t training us for a a calm and orderly world where we could pick and choose when we needed to be clever. He was training us for a situation that was fucked up on all sides. Well, we`re in it, and I say we`re equal to it. I don`t need to be reminded that we`re up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we`re the goddamned sharks."

"Do you have a plan?" Jean`s eyes said he was curious but vary.
"Not even remotely. I don`t have the first damned clue what we`re going to do. But all my best plans start just like this."

There`s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

Now it seems you only grasp the value of strong men as servants. In time, you will come to see the value of gracious ones as well.

I have become very hard to shock since my children grew above the tops of my knees.

As Father Chains had once said, the best disguises were those that were poured out of the heart rather than painted on the face.

You`re one third bad intentions, one third pure varice and one eighth sawdust. What`s left, I`ll credit, must be brains.

It takes two to break a heart.

What a stupid, reckless, idiotic, ridiculous damn thing to do! I haven`t the words to express my admiration.

"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."
"Well, not very easily, I`ll grant you that, my boy. <...> But when the quality get together to dine, it`s impolite to knock anybody off with anything but poison. That thing is for scooping butter, not slicing windpipes."

When you mess with a leader`s ability to rule his gang, out come the knives.

"Oh-ho-ho!" Chains reached out and slapped the boy on the shoulder. "Enlightment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn`t it?

You can`t help being young, but it`s past time that you stopped being stupid.

"Bug," Calo said, "Locke is like a brother to us, and our love for him has no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'"
"Rivaled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galdo.
"The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games-"
"-is Locke Lamora-"
"-because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons-"
"-and fifty thousand cheering spectators."

We have a saying - that undeserved good fortune always conceals a snare.