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

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

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.

Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

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.

You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.

The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.

Suffering softens the soul.

If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?

I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free.

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.