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| eae51da | Someday she'll get older, and the world will start having its way with her. She'll throw temper tantrums, she'll need therapy, she'll grow breasts and have pimples, she'll fight with her parents, she'll worry about her weight, she'll put out, she'll have her heart broken, she'll be happy, she'll be lonely, she'll be complicated, she'll be confused, she'll be depressed, she'll fall in love and get married, and she'll have a baby of her own. .. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 3937d7b | And beneath the chaos of the moment, Denise becomes aware of a painful truth about herself: she is never as deeply in love with a man as she is in the moment he leaves her. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 81919d4 | I haven't seen her in a while, haven't returned her calls or stopped thinking about her. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| f138380 | It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 7dd0fb0 | So instead of feeling sorry for yourself, realize that your life, just like a developing child's, has phases--and now you're in the mommy phase. | Laura Schlessinger | ||
| cf381d5 | Procreation has little to do with your needs; it has everything to do with the child's needs. | Laura C. Schlessinger | ||
| 93faad0 | In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care. | Laurie Garrett | ||
| a1f90fe | Your mother doesn't make mistakes." I hear her blow out the smoke. "Baby, I know what I'm doing." | Holly Black | ||
| 081ca2e | Which man, Fitz?" I asked quietly." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3b4bbfe | What should I do?" Uriel asked. "Sit," I said. "Stay inside. Don't put pennies in the outlets or play with matches or run with scissors." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 62a5291 | It is the nature of the universe that things remain. Nothing ever disappears completely. The very sound of Creation still echoes throughout the vast darkness: The universe remembers. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f7d2559 | Do you know my dog's name?" "Cerberus," I said promptly. "But everyone knows that." "Do you know what it means?" I opened my mouth and closed it again. I shook my head. "It is from an ancient word, kerberos. It means 'spotted.'" I blinked. "You're a genuine Greek god. You're the Lord of the Underworld. And . . . you named your dog Spot?" "Who's a good dog?" Hades said, scratching the third head behind the ears, and making the beast's mouth .. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 68d7844 | Polka will never die!" Butters screamed. "I can't believe I'm hearing this," Thomas muttered." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2baf025 | Fire," she whispered. "Wind. I see dark things and a dark war. I see my death coming for me, out of the spirit world. And I see you at the middle of it all. You're the beginning, the end of it. You're the one who can make the path go different ways." "That's your vision? Iowa has less corn." | Jim Butcher | ||
| aa3542f | It's me. Hell's bells, there isn't anything that I can think of that would mimic me looking like this. Even demonic fiends from the nether regions of hell have some taste. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c06f66f | Bob," I asked. "What is all my stuff doing here?" "Oh," Bob said. "That. Well. Bianca got the idea, somewhere, that your stuff might explode if anyone messed around with it." I heard the wryness in my voice, though I didn't feel it. "She did, did she." "I can't imagine how." "I'm doubling your pay." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f0bda78 | You've never been a peasant in medieval France, Harry," Bob said. "Life was hard for those people. Never enough food, shelter, medicine. If you could give yourself a fur coat and the ability to go out and hunt your own meat, you would have jumped at the chance, too." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f3fe606 | I mean, go figure. You prepare your home for an assault and you don't take zombies into consideration. I'd fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f606387 | Do all wizards," he said, "get the kiddie crowns and war them around? Or is that only for special occasions?" "Do all werewolves," I shot back, snatching the crown from my head, "wear glasses and too much Old Spice? Or is taht only for full moons?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| b2ec118 | Reason. Reason was my next line of defense. Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cdcab7e | Whatever had killed him, it hadn't been human. His face was gone, simply torn away. Something had ripped his lips off. I could see his bloodstained teeth. His nose had been torn all the way up one side, and part of it dangled toward the floor. His head was misshapen, as though some enormous pressure had been put upon his temples, warping his skull in. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 92f4a0d | There was a flash, a tingling pain in my head, and then a lingering, dull ache. For some reason that didn't surprise me. You don't gain knowledge without a little pain. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cd373b8 | There is a dark side to religious devotion that is too often ignored or denied. As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane -- as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout -- there may be no more potent force than religion. When the subject of religiously inspired bloodshed comes up, many Americans immediately think of Islamic fundamentalism, which is to be expected in the wake of the September 11 attacks .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 0abc1a5 | Hell's bells, Susan, you don't know what you've done. You've got to get out of here." She snorted. "Like hell." "I mean it," I said. "You're in danger." "Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York." | new-york-city | Jim Butcher | |
| f5dec7e | Come on," I said to Karrin. "Head for the other boat." "Should we?" she asked. "That Erlking guy seems a little..do-it-yourselfy." -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1d1b671 | I blinked slowly at that notion. "A honeymoon free of your mother-in-law." "Worth more than gold or jewels," Hades said." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5ece4f1 | His red hair was buzz cut, and he wore his ill-fitting suit like something that he planned to rip his way out of when he turned into the Hulk. | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 2833cf3 | Just remember, Harry, I told you this was a bad idea." "Preemptive I-told-you-sos," I said. "Now I've seen everything." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 37c2f9c | Magic is like a lot of other disciplines that people have recently begun developing, in historic terms. Working with magic is a way of understanding the universe and how it functions. You can approach it from a lot of different angles, applying a lot of different theories and mental models to it. You can get to the same place through a lot of different lines of theory and reasoning, kind of like really advanced mathematics. There's no truly.. | magic mathematics | Jim Butcher | |
| d8f887f | I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him." "Thwart?" Sarissa asked. "Thwart." I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition," Sarissa said. "It is today." | humorous thwart | Jim Butcher | |
| 2b9c912 | Got it with you?" I asked Butters. "Are you kidding?" he said, grinning. "I may never put it down again." "So show her," I said. "You think that's . . . you know. Okay? To show it off like that?" "You aren't showing off," I said. "You're confirming her faith." Butters screwed up his face and then said, "Yeah. I guess that's okay, then." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2dfff5f | Dude," I said, making the word a disgusted sound. "Single guys everywhere hate you. Starting with me." | Jim Butcher | ||
| eb82bd9 | hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1af33c1 | Listen to me," I snarled. "We are not going to die!" Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" "No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die." He blinked. "Polka will never die!" I shouted at him. "Say it!" He swallowed. "Polka.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| fc5b83c | Everyone thinks magic is something different. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 73cc7e6 | We need to get out," I said. My voice sounded raw to me. "Trouble coming." "No," said a beautiful Sidhe baritone. "Trouble is here." They appeared from behind their veils, one by one, with so much melodrama that I was mildly surprised that they hadn't each struck some kind of kung fu pose." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1ff3bd9 | The Sidhe are prancy, but fierce. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4d11c70 | Harry Dresden. I'm on a mission from God. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e87f16c | I look around me, man . . . I'm trying to do what I've always done, to protect people, to keep them safe from the monsters--only I'm pretty sure I'm one of them. I can't figure out where I could have . . . what else I might have done . . ." I swallowed. "I'm lost. I know every step I took to get here, and I'm still lost." "Harry . . ." "And my friends," I said. "Even Thomas . . . I was stuck out on that island of the damned for a year. A ye.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0c01fba | Michael titled his head. "But . . . Uriel, if I were to misuse it . . ." "I would Fall," Uriel said quietly. I choked on the air. Holy crap. The last time an archangel Fell, I'm pretty sure there were extended consequences." | Jim Butcher | ||
| eb39d33 | Now, Lily said, her burning voice bitter. Now you give me a choice. The ministar flared to life in her palm again. Thus do I choose, you son of a bitch. Knight of Winter, burn and die. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8f04562 | Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 65c54a8 | Uriel smiled. "Collin, like the others, is wit me because he is not yet prepared to face what comes next. When he is, he'll take that step. For now, he is not." "When you say , what do you mean, exactly?" "The part involving words like , , and ." "Oh," I said. "What Comes Next." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3143002 | Against anything human, more than one round to the head would be overkill: When the merely mortal goes up against the supernatural, there's no such as overkill | Jim Butcher |