You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.

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

I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up.

It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

They kissed for the sort of endless moment that only exists between lovers whose lips are still new territory to one another.

I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.

Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.