For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

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.

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

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

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

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily the respond to real control.

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the Gray king

In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

I'd love to play Neil Kinnock. Because of my ginger hair, I thought that was a possibility. He's a hero and a villain in most people's eyes, but I'd like to do that, I think I'd be right for it.

When we aren't alert, we miss opportunities to improve ourselves. We should always watch for circumstances or situations that can help or harm us and be eager to learn from these encounters.

Loving what you do is the secret to everything.

The Art of Peace begins with you.

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.