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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f93770e | Butters blinked at looked at Thomas. "My God," he said. "You've been shot." Thomas hooked a thumb at Butters. "Check out Dr. Marcus Welby, MD, here." "I'd have gone with Doogie Howser, maybe," I said. "Split the difference at McCoy?" Thomas asked. "Perfect." | Jim Butcher | ||
| ed40948 | Someone is out there," I said. "Someone who has been manipulating the events. Playing puppet master, stirring the pot, stacking the deck - " "Mixing metaphors?" Thomas suggested." | Jim Butcher | ||
| e41d1f7 | It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters. | truth horror monsters | Jim Butcher | |
| 89417ee | Technically,' I said, "I'm not breaking any of the Laws of Magic. I'm not robbing you of your will, so I'm clear of the Fourth Law. And you didn't get loose, so I'm clear of the Seventh Law. The Council can bite me.' The bone ridges above Chauncy's eyes twitched. 'Surely, that is merely a colorful euphemism, rather than a statement of desire.' 'It is." | magic humor | Jim Butcher | |
| c1f0f81 | Booya!" I drunkenly howled from the ground. I choked a little on the dust as I staggered back to my feet, my heart pounding, my whole body alive with strain and adrenaline. I stabbed a pointing finger toward the impact crater. "That's right! just rocked your ? Harry fucking Dresden! who!" | Jim Butcher | ||
| baa2daa | Where germs go?" "Sunrise," I said. "Poof." Butter's voice sounded bewildered. "Vampire germs?" "The tiny capes are a dead giveaway." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0fad7ab | I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire." "Not just a vampire," I said, "a cheesy vampire. Do you think they got the point?" -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| 89418aa | Id me didn't have to be concerned with long-term consequences. He was my instinctive, primitive self, driven by my most primal impulses. I wondered, briefly, if 'id' and 'idiot' came from the same root. | psychology | Jim Butcher | |
| 8d3739d | Investigate the faeries. Great. That was absolutely guaranteed to get complicated before I got any useful answers. If there was one thing faeries hated doing, it was giving you a straight answer, about anything. Getting plain speech out out of one is like pulling out teeth. Your own teeth. Through your nose. | humor scifi faeries | Jim Butcher | |
| 1595db5 | Merlin had, according to legend, created the White Council of Wizards from the chaos of the fall of the Roman Empire. He plunged into the flames of the burning Library of Alexandria to save the most critical texts, helped engineer the Catholic Church as a vessel to preserve knowledge and culture during Europe's Dark Ages, and leapt tall cathedrals in a single bound. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 50c7388 | I didn't shiver. I get muscle twitches sometimes. That's all. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6580f16 | I had to maintain a fine balance between going in ready for trouble and going in asking for trouble. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 29a82ac | I've been learning this kind of thing," Tavi replied. "I can show you later. How did you steal all of that without learning how to open a lock?" "I stole the keys," Katai said. "Obviously." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4930b22 | Black wizards don't just grow up like toadstools, you know. Someone has to teach them complicated things like summoning demons, ritual magic, and cliched villain dialogue. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 16d5baa | He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. "Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood." | young-adult dark boys imprisoned blood tana teens paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya | Holly Black | |
| 48e9680 | Every night, in every Coldtown, people die. People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death. | Holly Black | ||
| b3e7ac1 | I hate that you can do what you're supposed to do and I can't. I hate that you're going to leave me behind. I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like . It feels like each one of you is being possessed and I'm next. | Holly Black | ||
| 846ccdd | Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls. | angels holly-black | Holly Black | |
| 5c44354 | He's quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial. | Holly Black | ||
| 549d24e | His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook. | romance tana sci-fi gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya | Holly Black | |
| 0b7b356 | In general, her family wasn't very good at talking about important stuff. And of all of them, she was the least good at it. When she tried, it felt like all the chains on all her imagined safes and trunks started rattling | Holly Black | ||
| c83a2e5 | You're a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies. | Holly Black | ||
| aa1703f | For a moment," he says, "I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me." I make a face at him. "And what made you decide it wasn't?" He grins up at me. "They missed." | Holly Black | ||
| 6af6425 | It's not fair. We had a story, and our story was important. And I hate that both of you can just walk away and take part of my story with you and not even care. I hate that you can do what you're supposed to do and I can't. I hate that you're going to leave me behind. I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like dying. It feels like each of you is being possessed and I'm next. | Holly Black | ||
| 8abdcb9 | You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one." | Holly Black | ||
| 27702db | I concentrate on what I am going to say to Vivi, instead of thinking of Cardan. I do not want to consider what happened between us. I do not want to think about the way his muscles moved or how his skin felt or the soft gasping sounds he made or the slide of his mouth against mine. I definitely don't want to think about how hard I had to bite my own lip to keep quiet. Or how obvious it was that I'd never done any of the things we did, no le.. | sex desire pleasure | Holly Black | |
| c710e5c | Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first. | distopian young-adult-fiction | Holly Black | |
| e12b65d | I am no murderer," says Cardan, surprising me. I would not have thought that was something to be proud of." | Holly Black | ||
| 68b3d49 | A king is a living symbol, a beating heart, a star upon which Elfhame's future is written. Surely you have noticed that since his reign began, the isles are different. Storms come in faster. Colors are a bit more vivid, smells are sharper.... When he becomes drunk, his subjects becomes tipsy without knowing why. When his blood falls, things grow. | Holly Black | ||
| c01598c | You really dug your own grave," he mutters. "And I'm going to bury you in it." "Say that louder," I tell him, under my breath. "I dare you." | Holly Black | ||
| 7b56bc7 | He gave her a smile that wasn't really a smile at all. "Eh, it wouldn't be so bad. I wouldn't have to study for the SATs or get a summer job or figure out my major. I can drink Elderflower wine all day, dance all through the night, and sleep on a bower of roses." Hazel made a face. "I'm pretty sure there are some colleges where you can do that. I bet there are some colleges where you can major in that." | hazel jack sat | Holly Black | |
| 354779e | Once, there was a girl who found a sword in the woods. Once, there was a girl who made a bargain with the Folk. Once, there was a girl who'd been a knight in the service of a monster. Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself. Once, there was a girl... Hazel | Holly Black | ||
| 16be400 | Lucien," Gavriel said, "if you're proposing a duel, I believe she gets to pick the weapon. I hope she picks me." | Holly Black | ||
| 76ede5e | He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd gone before those heroes, about whether they'd been heroic too or whether they'd been at each other's throats, before everything had gone wrong. He wondered if there was a point where they realized they weren't going to make it, weren't going to b.. | heroes quests failure | Holly Black | |
| 50a5ea0 | If you don't know why you're apologizing, your apology probably sucks. | black-heart | Holly Black | |
| 9e4d23c | Tom opened his eyes, and looked upon his master. "Ye poor miserable critter!" he said, "there ain't no more ye can do! I forgive ye, with all my soul!" and he fainted entirely away." | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| d0c455d | But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 6cac076 | And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honour and justice by dollars and cents. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 4ddfd65 | She drew herself up and crossed her arms over her chest. "So Buck can enjoy sitting in a cell contemplating how he blew up his life. That dickwad hurt two people sitting at this table. And you're worried about who'll look bad if they tell? Screw that. Dean and D.J. and Kennedy and every frat boy on this campus can all go fuck themselves. Are we sisters or not?" | sisterhood girl-power inspirational sorority | Tammara Webber | |
| 5af1d47 | Erin you' re dangerous." "Iknow." | Tammara Webber | ||
| 5fe956f | People who aren't asleep when Ruby comes around have to take sleeping pills. Everyone is afraid of those pills- even the substance- abuse guests. | Patricia McCormick | ||
| 931a730 | My bundle is light. My burden is heavy. | Patricia McCormick | ||
| d97226f | Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spilled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next... | Patricia McCormick | ||
| 46b24a5 | We were at another funeral party. I wasn't sure who had died this time, but it was a suicide, and upsetting because it was completely out of season. No on killed themselves in summertime. It was rude. | Marya Hornbacher |