Scott Lynch

"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 ca…"

"People die when they get hanged. It’s why they hang them!"

"“Sure, kid. Look, there's a very old saying in my family: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is another wizard fucking with you.’"

"Only gods-damned fools die for lines drawn on maps."

"Time went by with all the speed of a sleepless night."

"You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid."

"Next came the sort of kiss that banished the world to distant background noise and seemed to last a month."

"By rights he was still outrunning his age, still ahead of most men nearing threescore years, but he knew deep in his heart that there would never be any way of running fast enough."