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

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

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.

Most often simplicity defines the true beauty of a great life.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

You always have choices no matter what.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.