“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”

“You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.”

“This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated”

“I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished," Locke whispered. "There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?”

“When you see the Crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell him that Locke Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.”

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

“When you don't know everything that you could know, it's a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite.”