To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

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

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

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.

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.

We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.