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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7dc6b94 | You're going to have to take care of yourself," Karrin said quietly. "Over the next few weeks. Rest. Give yourself a chance to heal. Keep the wound on your leg clean. Get to a doctor and get that arm into a proper cast. I know you can't feel it, but it's important that--" I stood, leaned over the bed, and kissed her on the mouth. Her words dissolved into a soft sound that vibrated against my lips. Then her good arm slid around my neck, and .. | kiss romance love injured dresden-files hospital murphy | Jim Butcher | |
| f9304ad | Bob," I said over my shoulder. "Tell her it's me." "Can't," Bob said in a dreamy tone. "Boobs." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2aa9241 | I hate what you represent." ... | conscience power | Jim Butcher | |
| 74dcd25 | Nicodemus is a murderous murdering murderer... | Jim Butcher | ||
| 449ad54 | My father had died when I was young, before I learned that there was anything stronger than he was. I'd been operating without that kind of support for my whole life. Molly was only now realizing that, in some ways, she was on her own. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d0a53a7 | I eyed the spirit. "You know the name 'Alfred' is a joke, right?" It stared at me. A wind that didn't exist stirred the hem of its cloak. I raised my hands in surrender and said, "All right. I guess you need a first name, too. Alfred Demonreach it is." | Jim Butcher | ||
| c23bca2 | Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy. | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 30013e1 | Not sure. Using it is trickier than most people think," I said. "You've got to keep it from drying out, and you've got to get it undiluted. It was raining, so if someone wanted my blood, they'd have had to get to it pretty quick - and it looked like Sith was keeping them busy." "Sith?" Butters asked. "Not what you're thinking," I said. "Oh," he said, clearly disappointed." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 74f9530 | This isn't going to work," Justine murmured. "It is going to work," I told her, keeping my tone confident. "We'll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us." Justine glanced at me with an arched eyebrow. "The Rack?" "The Rack is more than just boobs, Justine," I told her soberly. "It's an energy field created by all living boobs. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together." -- | girl-power funny humor femininity geek the-rack dresden-files star-wars molly-carpenter harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| e8ecf99 | The worst lies are almost always silence--or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core. | Jim Butcher | ||
| afe42b6 | every jungle creature for fifty or sixty yards started raising holy hell on the what-the-fuck-was-that party line. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3b1a568 | One rather thick volume was titled Means of Execution Through the Ages, and was placed with an elegant balance of nonchalance and availability at the eye level of anyone entering the room. As threats went, it was nearly subliminal--and perhaps it was placed there for that very reason. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 374d852 | Graves aren't for the dead. They're for the loved ones the dead leave behind them. Once those loved ones have gone, once all the lives that have touched the occupant of any given grave had ended, then the grave's purpose was fulfilled and ended. I suppose if you looked at it that way, one might as well decorate one's grave with an enormous statue or a giant temple. It gave people something to talk about, at least. Although, following that l.. | graves memorial | Jim Butcher | |
| e5974f2 | I poke at my skull with a finger. It didn't feel soft or anything. I didn't feel insane. But if you'd really lost it, would you have enough left to know? Crazy people never thought they were crazy. "I've always talked to things," I said. "And to myself." "Good point," myself agreed with me. "Unless that means you've been nuts all along." "I don't need wiseass remarks," I told myself severely. "There's work to do. So shut up." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0baeda0 | You need a prostate to understand," I said." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0cdb7f2 | Life is not notable for its overabundance of certainty. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 43ba412 | It hurts!" bellowed Ramirez drunkenly, flinging a last pair of bolts at a fleeing ghoul. "Ow! Ow, it hurts! It hurts to be this *good*!" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2decb00 | Sanya told you about his beliefs.' I felt the corners of my mouth start to twinge as another smile threatened. 'Yeah.' Shiro let out a pleased snort. 'Sanya is a good man.' 'I just don't get why he'd be recruited as a Knight of the Cross.' Shiro looked at me over the glasses, chewing. After a while, he sad, 'Man sees faces. Sees skin. Flags. Membership lists. Files.' He took another large bite, ate it, and said, 'God sees hearts. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7f1a6c3 | As far as I can tell, all cats [can see ghosts.] But they aren't terribly impressed with the fact that we're dead and still present. One rarely gets a reaction from them. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5f9e8e8 | Kaye took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother's beer bottle. She figured that would be a good test for how drunk Ellen was--see if she would swallow a butt whole | Holly Black | ||
| a657440 | There is something of yours that i would like to return to you . . . He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own. | Holly Black | ||
| c8baaa1 | The more you love her, the crazier you get. My love was great. My crimes were greater. | Holly Black | ||
| 7310826 | His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before. | literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires | Holly Black | |
| 7f3120c | But what if I actually becoming besotted with him? Cardan is more knowledgeable than I am at love. He could use that against me, just as I asked him to use it against Nicasia. Perhaps he found a way to turn the tables after all. a part of me says, a part I remember from the night I took him captive. | Holly Black | ||
| 6ffb76b | In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death. | literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires | Holly Black | |
| 517fc58 | He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. "See, I even brought some things to read aloud. I wasn't sure what you'd like, so there's a bit of everything." | reader holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown manga | Holly Black | |
| 7e7a09d | Harden your heart. | dark fantasy dangerous elfham prince-cardan jude faerie | Holly Black | |
| 61183d7 | What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skin" "Do you know what they wish for when they give you the Unseelie crown?" Roiben's tone was soft, like he was telling a secret. Kaye could barely catch his words. "That you be made of ice. What makes you think it matters what I feel? What makes you think I feel anything at all?" | Holly Black | ||
| 0438eda | Mom" I say "Oh honey" she says "The doctor wants to see you to make sure you don't have the same thing that killed your brother. " She turns to Ms.Logan who looks scandalized by the whole encounter. "These things can run in famalies" she confides. "Your afraid I'm going to come down with a bad case of getting two in the chest?" I say "cause you might be right about that running in families. " | Holly Black | ||
| 00252fa | I know I shouldn't love it as I do, stolen as I am from the mortal world, my parents murdered. But I love it all the same. | Holly Black | ||
| 3e11e93 | His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers. | Holly Black | ||
| 018b5b8 | Do you know what the Turkish say about coffee? It should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. | Holly Black | ||
| 68034b1 | Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug. | Holly Black | ||
| 711f12b | The human soul is the opposite of chaos, of nothingness. The soul is everything. | Holly Black Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2385064 | It was a vow, a piece of a chant, their scripture, something they took so seriously that saying it aloud embarrassed them. | Holly Black | ||
| 832c417 | Revenge is sweet, but ice cream is sweeter." She goes to the freezer and removes a tub of mint chocolate chip. She brings that and two spoons back to the sofa. "For now, accept this delight, unworthy though it is for the Queen of Faerie in exile." | revenge | Holly Black | |
| ac57342 | She turned to me, head titled, her expression pure confusion. As though I had no reason to be afraid of a broken heart. She had no idea how dangerous a broken heart could be. You do, though. You know. | Holly Black | ||
| cd1ac3d | Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, lest that your hearts blood should run cold. | Holly Black | ||
| c454308 | She went to all the parties and kissed all the boys, shoring up fun against despair, against the suffocating terror that loomed over her. | Holly Black | ||
| e0df6e5 | What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 48dd780 | Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 3f71a27 | Watching her made my heart ache, as if that organ had become linked to her emotional state, rather than targeting its primary task--keeping me alive. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 66e0a95 | I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 40a7fc2 | Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark. | Tammara Webber |