I'm not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little.

Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora to Requin)

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.

When you see the crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell hi that Lock Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.

I'm not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little.

As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.