“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”
Источник: Red Seas Under Red Skies
Скотт Линч — американский писатель-фантаст, известный циклом произведений «Джентльмены-ублюдки» . Проживает вместе с женой в Нью-Ричмонде, Висконсин. Его первый роман Обманы Локки Ламоры был куплен компанией Орион Букс в 2004 году и выпущен в августе 2006 года. Кроме писательской деятельности, Линч является добровольным пожарным, сертифицированным в Миннесоте и Висконсине. Wikipedia
“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”
Источник: Red Seas Under Red Skies
“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
Источник: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 4 “At the Court of Capa Barsavi” section 5 (p. 219)
Источник: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 2 “Requin” section 3 (p. 93)
Контексте: “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)
Источник: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)
“Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind”
Источник: Red Seas Under Red Skies
“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”
Источник: The Republic of Thieves
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
Источник: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.”
Источник: The Lies of Locke Lamora
Источник: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 5 “The Five-Year Game: Starting Position” section 1 (p. 250)
Контексте: 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.”
Источник: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.”
Источник: The Republic of Thieves
“What is government but theft by consent?”
Источник: 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.”
Источник: The Republic of Thieves
Источник: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 13 “Orchids and Assassins” section 4 (p. 567)
Источник: 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”
Источник: Red Seas Under Red Skies