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| e250f12 | You aren't angry," he said. "That she's hurt." "Like hell I'm not," I said. "It's coming. After we take care of her. When it's time." Michael grunted. "You aren't more angry than you would be if it was me. Or Butters, here." I grunted. "She's not a delicate princess," I said. "She's a warrior. Warriors have enemies. Sometimes warriors get hurt." I felt my jaws clench. "And then their friends even things up." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 47a471c | I clenched my jaw as hard as I could. It wasn't much of a stretch to keep pretending to be angry, but I tried to go all Method actor on them. Eat your heart out, Sir Ian. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e135aa1 | But that's just it. I ... I don't want to go. I don't want to see that..." She glanced aside at Mouse and shuddered. "Blood, like that. I don't remember what happened when you and Mother saved me from Arctis Tor. But I don't want to see more of that. I don't want it to happen to me. I don't want to hurt anyone." I let out a low, non-committal sound. "Then why are you here?" "B-because," she said, searching for words. "Because I need to do i.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 81cc274 | Yeah, I should probably eat more vegetables, too," I said, "but let's face it. That isn't going to happen. So what's up?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| c18dab9 | Good Lord, I'm regretting this now," I muttered. "I have never - ever - smelled BO this bad in my . And I once had s'mores wit a Sasquatch." "Hang out with him for awhile," Mort gasped. "Eventually it's not so bad." "Wow. Really?" "No. Not really." | Jim Butcher | ||
| b5d06f2 | The whole "lets find Bigfoot" thing seems a little ill-planned to me, personally. Granted, my perspective is different than that of non-wizards, but marching out into the woods looking for a very large and very powerful creature by blasting out what you're pretty sure are territorial challenges to fight (or else mating calls) seems... somewhat unwise. I mean, if there's no Bigfoot, no problem. But what if you're standing there, screaming ".. | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 4a19666 | You can describe it to them as much as you want. You can write books about what you felt, what you experienced. You can compose poems and songs about what it was like. But until they've seen it for themselves, they can't really know what it is you're talking about. A few people will clearly see the effect it had on you, will understand that much, at least. But they won't know. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 739ce34 | I've heard that nature abhors a vacuum--though if that's true, then I can't figure why about ninety-nine zillion percent of creation is vacuum. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e144b99 | If she were in a race for her life, that roar was the starter pistol. If God were the referee, He had just shouted Go. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 52b301b | It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are, "Benedict said, his tone amused. "It works particularly well against those who aren't as intelligent as you in the first place." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 025c959 | I don't know the good or the evil of the thing. That's something that only you mortals worry about. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 847f204 | You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap," he said promptly. "Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f8b50cb | She came back with a can of Coke and a can of Diet Coke, and handed me the nonvile one. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 63d17bb | A wonderful place, the mind, but if it has any kind of disappointing failure, it's that it always attempts to put new things into the context of things which are already familiar to it. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 20e9736 | Because your balls are in a vise and I'm the only one who can pull them out," I said. He arched an elegant silver eyebrow. "Okay," I said. "That came out a little more homoerotic than I intended." "Indeed," said the Merlin." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f85a7f5 | With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country. | sarcasm | jim butcher | |
| 8d4b84b | Empty night, Harry. Didn't your little adventure in the lake teach you a damned thing?" I scowled some more. "Like what?" "Like life is short," he [Thomas] said. "Like you don't know when it's going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can't ever be said." | regrets | Jim Butcher | |
| ac37f55 | I , this town. Why does every hideous supernatural thing that happens happen ? I'm gone for a few months and . Be right back. Grssll frrrsl rassle mrrrfl. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 79285f2 | I'm not a doctor," Butters said. We'd done this dance several times. "You are the Mighty Butters," I said. "You can do anything." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6b07633 | One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 72ed030 | I rode the dinosaur into the stream of zombies following in the Wardens' wake and let her go to town. Sue chomped and stomped and smacked zombies fifty feet through the air with swinging blows of her snout. Her tail batted one particularly vile-looking zombie into the brick wall of the nearest building, and the zombie hit so hard and so squishily that it just stuck to the wall like a refrigerator magnet, arms and legs spread in a sprawl. | Jim Butcher | ||
| fc3022a | She is my child," Charity objected. "She was," Forthill corrected her, "if only for a time. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f4ee734 | When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 24c668b | Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That's why black magic is so easy - it comes from lust, from fear, from things that are easy to feed and make grow. The sort I do is harder. It comes from something deeper than that, a truer and purer source - harder to tap, harder to keep, but ultimately more elegant, more powerful. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 28d4c1a | The moon rose in silver splendor into an October sky strewn with pale clouds and brilliant stars. The clouds churned, a white-foam sea, and the moon was a vast, graceful clipper ship, its sails full of spectral light as it ran before the strength of the cold autumn winds. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 59b5389 | You are different. That does not make you less. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 841d6cf | Hey, Bogart. You and the wonder twins back off or the bedsheet gets it." Harry Dresden, Death Masks." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 00ff8db | Senator. If you call my friend a liar one more time, I will take it badly." "Excuse me?" Arnos said, his eyebrows rising up. "I suggest you find an alternate shortsighted, egomaniacally ridiculous reason to blatantly, recklessly ignore an obvious threat to the Realm simply because you don't wish it to exist. If you cannot restrain yourself from base slander, I will be pleased to meet you in and personally rip your forked tongue from your .. | funny liar threat | Jim Butcher | |
| 9b8856e | Just keep the shirt clean," Susan muttered. "No problem. I can wipe my fingers on the cummerbund." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5e87db2 | All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper-and they will not miss him. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1efe45c | Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language. That is, on man.. | communication-problem communication-skills dating gender gender-differences gender-stereotypes men men-and-women relationships women women-and-men | Jim Butcher | |
| 7e19a61 | Battles are fought in muddy fields, in burning towns, in treacherous forests, in unforgiving mountains, and on the blood-spattered stones of contested bridges, Tavi realized. But battles are won within the minds and hearts of the soldiers fighting them. No force was defeated in battle until it believed that it was defeated. No force could be victorious unless it believed it could be victorious. The First Aleran believed. The Canim raiders .. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b700d0c | I turned to Grey again. "The point is, killing someone is almost never the smart move, long term. Sometimes it's got to be done if you want to survive--but the more you do it, the more you risk creating more enemies and buying yourself even more trouble." Grey seemed to consider that for a moment, and then shrugged. "The argument is not entirely without merit. Tell me, wizard, does it give you some sort of satisfaction to protect this man?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 242ebdf | You've got it backward, Harry," he said. "You are a soul. You have a body." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 51d2617 | Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the side of his bunk on the ship, keeping a deathwatch over him. "I don't see what all the drama is about," Demos said, his quiet voice filled with habitual disinterst. "He's seasick. It will pass."~Captain's Fury" | longing-for-death misery | Jim Butcher | |
| dc75d6c | There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out hadn't shown up or spoken to me for more than a year. | first-sentence harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| a523718 | It gets too hot in there after a long test," he told Ehren. "The air gets all squishy." "It's called humidity, Tavi," Ehren said. "I haven't slept in almost two days. It's squishy." | Jim Butcher | ||
| c9eaaaf | Deti. Musite je mit radi. Ja se jich nemuzu nabazit. Trosku soli, pokapat citronem - dokonale. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4b33bc2 | She frowned. "God, that's sad. You want to be with her but the sex part--" I shuddered. "Ewg. You are far too young to say that word." The girl's eyes shone. "What word? Sex?" I put my hands over my ears. "Gah." Molly grinned and enunciated. "But the bleep part would make her lose control." I coughed uncomfortably, lowering my hands. "Basically. Yeah." "Why don't you tie her up?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7a3383f | There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrug.. | humor life | Jim Butcher | |
| e1adce2 | Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ca3c07c | I settled in and told Michael, "Now, if only we had some Wagner to send us on our way." I saw Gard's reflection in the chopper's front windows look up at my words. Then she flicked a couple of switches, and "Ride of the Valkyries" started thrumming through the helicopter's cabin. "Yee-haw," I said as my elbows and knees started a nagging ache. "As long as we're going, we might as well go out in style." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 87375c9 | The only people who never hurt are dead. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d374c27 | Spear and magic helmet," I said in my best Elmer Fudd voice. "Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting vampires." | Jim Butcher |