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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1a5ed6b | One thing about intimidation is that people can always think up something worse that you could do to them than you can, if you leave their imagination some room to play. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e52c023 | I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled... | Jim Butcher | ||
| baf03a6 | The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 65a0a37 | It's hard to think when someone's trying to kill you. We human beings aren't wired to be rational and creative when we know our lives are in danger of a swift and violent end. The body has definite ideas of which survival strategies it prefers to embrace, and those are generally limited to "rip threat to pieces" or "run like hell." No thinking need be involved, as far as our instincts are concerned. Our instincts were a long time in the mak.. | survival-instinct | Jim Butcher | |
| 9ce2abd | You wouldn't be twisting yourself into knots like this, Harry, if you didn't care." "So?" "Monsters don't care," Michael said. "The damned don't care, Harry. The only way to go beyond redemption is to choose to take yourself there. The only way to do it is to stop caring." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5a4d106 | I've often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don't. I'm sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that's pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of the.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 62cdc27 | Thomas looked like he was about to talk some smack at the malk, but only for a second. Then he frowned and said, "It's odd. You sound like...like a grade-school teacher." "Perhaps it is because I am speaking to a child," Cat Sith said. "The comparison is apt." Thomas blinked several times and then he looked at me. "Did the evil kitty just call me a child?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9942365 | Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better. | bigfoot bullies bully bullying do-good dresden inspirational | Jim Butcher | |
| d4b562d | Butters," rumbled Skaldi Hair Ball. If he really had broken fingers, it didn't look like they were bothering him much. "When are you going to get in this ring and train like a man?" "About five minutes after I get a functional lightsaber," Butters replied easily, much to Hair Ball's amusement." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f64f1d2 | Harry?" Bob asked. "Are your feet wet? And can you see the pyramids?" I blinked. "What?" "Earth to Dresden," Bob said. "You are standing knee-deep in de Nile." -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| ff592d4 | I am cat," Rowl said smugly, "which means I have made better use of my time." | Jim Butcher | ||
| e3f1953 | Strength is the first virtue," Alera said. "That is not a pleasant fact. Its distastefulness does not alter the truth that without strength to protect them, all other virtues are ephemeral, ultimately meaningless." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4150655 | Everyone dies, honey," I said, very quietly. "Everyone. There's no 'if.' There's only 'when.'" I let that sink in for a moment. " you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| ef42248 | Still going with the phallic foci, eh? Staff and rod?" "They make me feel all manly." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8168f8a | I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 188a414 | You're supposed to be a spirit of intellect. I don't understand why you're obsessed with sex." Bob's voice got defensive. "It's an academic interest, Harry." "Oh yeah? Well maybe I don't think it's fair to let your academia go peeping in other people's houses." "Wait a minute. My academia doesn't -" I held up a hand. "Save it. I don't want to hear it." He grunted. "You're trivializing what getting out for a bit means to me, Harry. You're .. | bob funny | Jim Butcher | |
| 1659001 | I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows. | Jim Butcher | ||
| fee373b | Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel" | beautiful books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya | Holly Black | |
| f1c963d | Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you've fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you'd s.. | Holly Black | ||
| c78df74 | Really it was a pretty good talk. About the best I could expect from my sociopath amnesiac jerk of an older brother. | Holly Black | ||
| 2103bf0 | God, I hate you," she says. "So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks." | Holly Black | ||
| a3600dc | Prince Balekin smiles back as though their smiles could duel without the rest of them even being involved. | Holly Black | ||
| f5847f5 | I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. | books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya | Holly Black | |
| 2cf0a14 | That's the spirit." Aaron hid a grin. He was already wearing his armband, just above his elbow. Somehow he managed to make it look cool. Call had tied his around his forearm and was fairly sure it looked like a bandage." -- | iron-trial | Holly Black | |
| 878bc68 | I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to. | Holly Black | ||
| 44f182d | What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? | Holly Black | ||
| caa65b1 | Love is a noble cause. How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong? | Holly Black | ||
| f9921e8 | As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt glad. She would make all her own decisions now, even if they were ruinous ones. It was the same pleasurable feeling as tearing a piece of paper into tiny, tiny pieces. | Holly Black | ||
| 43f547f | You really do want me,' I say, close enough to feel the warmth of his breath as it hitches. 'And you hate it. | jude-duarte prince-cardan the-cruel-prince | Holly Black | |
| b16ad9b | He stares at me in blankly. "Are you accusing me of not caring for your sister?" he asks. "If I truly believed you didn't care for Taryn, we wouldn't be having this conversation." He gives a long sigh. "Because you'd murder me?" "If you're playing with Taryn, Madoc will murder you; I won't even get a chance." I sheath my knife and head toward the door. "Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murde.. | family murder surprised | Holly Black | |
| c3e8a6a | There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story. | love relationships | Holly Black | |
| 46da1d6 | A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry. | roiben seelie-queen tithe | Holly Black | |
| cb74f00 | Jackie?" "It wasn't your fault." | Tammara Webber | ||
| 0d59dbf | Lucas was fifteen minutes late to class on Friday, and we had a pop quiz first thing--which he missed. My first thought was how irresponsible it was to miss a quiz... and then I remembered that I missed the midterm. I couldn't exactly point any fingers. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 94f0e28 | I kept my eyes open on the ride home. Peeking over Lucas's shoulder, i watched the scenery fly by-and it was exhilarating, not frightening. I trusted him. I had since that first night, when i let him drive me home. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 7372588 | I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 58afe2c | That macho protective bullshit is just some asshat man pissing on his territory so the other dogs will stay away. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 907c781 | When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes when there is so much to see. | sold | Patricia McCormick | |
| 0f71d97 | It/ll be better tomorrow... | positivity | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| 9b69e8e | He looked at the houses he had been passing these weeks and though he had never studied them carefully they had become familiar through the process of seeing them so often, and he was now impressed with the change in their appearance as he looked at them through the gray of the air and whiteness of the snow, each house, shrub, tree, bush and mailbox trimmed with snow and blending into the air as if they were just a picture projected upon th.. | silence snow solitude song | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| 0741647 | I guess we're kindred souls and that's why we can feel so close to each other. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| f9e4b03 | A guy needs something to give his life a reason or what's the point of living? | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 33e9714 | The natives knew better than to screw around with Tarzan. He was one bad dude. Lions, rhinos, just him and his knife. Great penthouse and elevator. Wouldnt last long in Brooklyn. Busted for indecent exposure. Me Tarzan you Judge. That is absolutely correct, and you are going to do sixty days. Try dressing as Beau Brummel the next time. Next case! | indecent-exposure tarzan | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| 2530aae | Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like youre in a bag and you cant get out and somebodys always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain. ... And then eventually it does break and its six months later. Like you just got your summer clothes out and then its Christmas and inbetween there are ten years of pain. | Hubert Selby Jr. |