Rogues Quotes

“I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”
― Scott Lynch, Rogues

“Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we’ve never seen, expand our horizons and our way of looking at the world. Limiting your reading to a single genre defeats that. It limits us, makes us smaller. It seemed to me, then as now, that there were good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“I'll send a boy round to [the crazy farmer] Martin's and ask him to come by with a couple bottles."
"Get five or six," Bast said. "It's getting cold at night. Winter's coming."
The innkeeper smiled. "I'm sure Martin will be flattered.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, Rogues

“Sometimes they are heroes. Sometimes they are villains. More often they are something in between, grey characters … and grey has long been my favorite color. It is so much more interesting than black or white.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“Love,' Asa said, 'is like a pigeon shitting over a crowd.'
'How so?'
'Where it lands hasn't got much to do with who deserves it.”
― Daniel Abraham, Rogues

“So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.

But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?”
― Patrick Rothfuss, Rogues

“You unfailingly omnibothersome bitch.”
― Scott Lynch, Rogues

“Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“No, she won't," Bast said smugly. "Because I'm all grown, and I can do whatever I want with my pants. I could light them on fire and I wouldn't get in any trouble at all.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, Rogues

“Better to say nothing and be thought a fool, than to interfere in the business of wizards and remove all doubt.”
― Scott Lynch, Rogues

“Women are generally responsible for all the cooking and planning of meals in private households, but I have never known any to bother about "proper meals" without a man around. Left to ourselves, we glory in "feasting" - standing at the kitchen table, or wrapped in blankets before the fire - on whatever wild assortment we can forage from the larder, or delight in a "nursery tea" of soft-boiled eggs with bread and butter; or dine on tea and cakes, or apples and cheese, while reading."

The Curious Affair of the Dead Wives”
― Lisa Tuttle, Rogues

“The Marquis de Carabas always had a plan, and he always had a fallback plan; and beneath these plans he always had a real plan, one that he would not even let himself know about, for when the original plan and the fallback plan had both gone south.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“We’ll both walk away smiling, in harmonious equipoise.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“Lack of subtlety, that’s how you beat magic.”
― Carrie Vaughn, Rogues

“An inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship.”
― Gillian Flynn, Rogues

“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.”
― Scott Lynch, Rogues

“People love their fathers. Their sisters. People love dogs or songs or poems. If I've got to be the champion of something, make it something that doesn't change what it means every time someone says it.”
― Daniel Abraham, Rogues

“People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“He looked like a naughty child who had managed to steal the moon and eat it.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“My colleague and I are journalists. ... Not of the muckraking variety, I hasten to assure you! Corruption is a necessary and time-honored concomitant of any functioning government, which we support wholeheartedly.”
― Michael Swanwick, Rogues

“Han is only in it for the money, he makes that plain right from the start … which makes it all the more thrilling when he returns at the end of Star Wars to put that rocket up Darth Vader’s butt. (Oh, and he DOES shoot first in the cantina scene, no matter how George Lucas retcons that first movie.)”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“This is a mess. A mess! Shraplin, you’re probably sober-esque. How many cards in a standard deck?”
“Sixty, boss.”
“How many cards presently visible in our hands or on the table?”
“Seventy-eight.”
“That’s ridiculous,” said Amarelle. “Who’s not cheating?”
― Scott Lynch, Rogues

“Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know.”
― Daniel Abraham, Rogues

“He was bright as broken glass and sharp enough to cut himself.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.”
― Steven Saylor, Rogues

“That is a sexist and, if I may dare say so, ungallant slander upon the fair sex, and I am astonished to hear it coming from your mouth.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“That’s what they always ended up saying: “But I’m just sad.” Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I’m not a licensed therapist but usually it means too much time.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“Get five or six,” Bast said. “It’s getting cold at night. Winter’s coming.” The innkeeper smiled. “I’m sure Martin will be flattered.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues

“It was raining when Amarelle Parathis went out just after sunset to find a drink, and there was strange magic in the rain. It came down in pale lavenders and coppers and reds, soft lines like liquid dusk that turned luminescent mist on the warm pavement. The air itself felt like champagne bubbles breaking against the skin. Over the dark shapes of distant rooftops, blue-white lightning blazed, and stuttering thunder chased it.”
― Scott Lynch, Rogues

“I know that sounds too earnest, but it’s true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”
― George R.R. Martin, Rogues