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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5a8ad29 | Butun yontulmamis varliklarda oldugu gibi onda da gulunc bir kendini begenmislik vardi. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 14f8101 | maybe we don't need a heavenly bribe or the fear of hell and damnation to make us behave decently. Maybe it would be healthier if people started believing in themselves instead. | Raymond Khoury | ||
| a9d6a82 | I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in. | Marilyn French | ||
| c46fdd8 | The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity. | kathryn-harrison memoir the-kiss | Kathryn Harrison | |
| 974453d | Nina, I really would like to go spend some time with Faith," he said bluntly. "To make me jealous?" "No. Because she's..." "Sweet?" Nina said, pulling a face and batting her eyelashes "Mine." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| b4366b3 | Here. Let me untangle your hair, at least. If we need to run, we can't have you stuck." "I don't think Bob's up for running," I said. "Then you'll take my horse." "What about you?" "I'll stay here and whittle a sword and kill the bear or, if that doesn't work, I'll just be eaten alive, happily sacrificing my life for yours." He gave me a look. "Or I'll just stay on the horse and you can sit behind me. Satan can hold two, I'm sure." "Oh, so .. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 2cf7242 | To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely fucked up. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 28ffa0c | You about done?" I asked him. "I need the table." "What is it with you people?" Butters groused. "For God's sake, these are real injuries here." "There will be more of them than a thousand reluctant physicians could patch up if we don't get moving," I said. "Today's serious business, man." "How serious?" "Can't think when it's been grimmer," I said. "Freaking waste-of-space vampires, lying around on tables you need to use." "Useless wizards.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f0016cc | Knight takes Knight," I called into the cloudy night air. "Check." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 77e2396 | People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so. | good-and-evil | Jim Butcher | |
| 47e8bb8 | Thomas grunted. "Might have been smarter for them to have left you alone. Now you know something." I made an exasperated sound. "Yes. Those fools. By trying to kill me, they've revealed their very souls. I have them now." Thomas gave me a steady look. "Being Mab's bitch has made you a pessimist." "I am not a pessimist," I said loftily. "Though can't last." That made Thomas grin. "Nice." "Thank you." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4d0c5ee | For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there's more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn't be out in the open, and they're covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time." Harry Dresden, Turn Coat." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8ed0f25 | Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape--and words help to define those thoughts. That's why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster's mind. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ba232cf | Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important. | Jim Butcher | ||
| adc0dcf | It took several minutes, and when Butters woke up, Andi and Marci, both naked, both rather pleasant that way, were giving him CPR. They'd kept his body alive in the absence of his soul. "Wow," Butters slurred as he opened his eyes. He looked back and forth between the two werewolf girls. "Subtract the horrible pain in my chest, and all the mold and mildew, and I'm living the dream." Then he passed out." | Jim Butcher | ||
| ccca339 | Sometimes the things that are good for you, in the long run, hurt for a little while when you first get to them. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 92429b6 | The world might be vicious and treacherous and deadly, but it couldn't kill laughter. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style. | Jim Butcher | ||
| aeacf89 | Mac folded his arms on the bar and looked at me intently and said, in a resonant baritone, "You've got to be very careful, Harry." I looked at him, shocked. He'd...used grammar." | Jim Butcher | ||
| a9bf7e5 | I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0822450 | An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6d42662 | Why?" I asked him tiredly. "What would it have changed? What could you possibly have said that would have made a difference?" "That I was your brother, Harry," he said. "That I loved you. That I knew a few things about denying the dark parts of your nature. And that we would get through it." He put his elblows on his knees and rested his forehead on his hands. "That we'd figure it out. That you weren't alone." Stab. Twist. He was right. It.. | family-love not-alone regret sweet | Jim Butcher | |
| 05d11b2 | So I added in all the pains I'd learned. Cooking blunders I'd had to eat anyways. Equipment and property constantly breaking down, needing repairs and attention. Tax insanity, and rushing around trying to hack a path through a jungle of numbers. Late bills. Unpleasant jobs that gave you horribly aching feet. Odd looks from people who didn't know you, when something less than utterly normal happened. The occasional night when the loneliness .. | pain | Jim Butcher | |
| e7ecddc | Insecurity, thy name is teenager. | teenage-insecurity teenagers | Jim Butcher | |
| 0a0cc6e | What we hadn't known about, back then, was pain. Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn some.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5e10458 | Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous. | hospitals | Jim Butcher | |
| e29ee12 | I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done. I turned around and ran like hell. | wizard | Jim Butcher | |
| be7547a | I leaned my head back on the couch and closed my eyes. "I'm not sure what to do next. How are you as a sounding board?" "I can look interested and nod at appropriate moments," he said. "Good enough," I said." | the-dresden-files | Jim Butcher | |
| 3eec9fb | Thomas said] "I have my cell phone on me. Try to call before things start exploding." "Maybe this time it'll be different. Maybe I'll work everything out through reason, diplomacy, dialogue, and mutual cooperation." Thomas eyed me. I tried to look wounded. "It could happen." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1b0ce9d | A more capable cat is never impressed by a less capable cat. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 67f4f5e | He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, "You are an untidy person." | dresden-files insults | Jim Butcher | |
| b6da56e | All friendships are negotiations of power. | power | Holly Black | |
| 86038bf | She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn. | Holly Black | ||
| 265c4aa | She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had. | love romance | Holly Black | |
| 5901209 | Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born. | normalcy sad you-re-not-special | Holly Black | |
| 3258f1e | It was enough to make her want to sit down on the ground and cry. It was too much. But there was no one else, so it couldn't be too much. It had to be exactly enough. It had to be what she could handle, and she had to handle it | Holly Black | ||
| 95b7703 | Guard your mortal heart. | cruel dangerous dark fantasy jude locke prince-cardan young-adult | Holly Black | |
| 1b0ea17 | Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It'll cost you everything. | Holly Black | ||
| 058fff2 | It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a jar of instant grounds. "Don't," I warn him. He scoops up a heaping spoonful and, heedlessly, shovels it into his mouth. It crunches horribly. Then his eyes go wide. "Dry," he croaks. "Tongue...shriveling." I shake my head, picking up the jar. "It's dehydrated. You're supposed to add water. Good thing you're mostly made of wate.. | Holly Black | ||
| eabced6 | Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me. | Holly Black | ||
| d0392da | Maybe, Hazel decided, maybe they could both learn how. Not just making-up-stories-in-which-you're-happy happiness, but the real thing. She leaned across the bed and hugged him with all the strength in her limbs, hugged him until her bones ached. But no matter how hard she hugged him, she knew it would never be enough. "I promise," she whispered. "I'll try." | Holly Black | ||
| 5a14c6d | She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered. | forbidden-pleasure holly-black vampire ya-lit | Holly Black | |
| a4afbf3 | That's family for you. Can't live with them; can't murder them. Unless Barron rats me out to Yulikova. Then I really might. | Holly Black | ||
| e584d1b | She sits up. I can't read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. "I didn't think you were going to be here." "I live here." | Holly Black | ||
| d893a66 | Crowns of flowers on our heads, shooting bows and arrows at the sky. Eating candied violets and falling asleep with our heads pillowed on logs. We were children. Children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night. | children nature | Holly Black |