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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c814b4f | And the sex," I said. "It will be frequent. Possibly violent. You'll be screaming. Neighbors will make phone calls." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 854cb68 | That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4ead945 | Those who write them do," Ferus said. "They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential nature." He sniffed. "Most untidy, really--but assemble enough scraps and one might have something approaching a whole." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f42f6b5 | Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face." Harry Dresden" | Jim Butcher | ||
| d102013 | Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of times they don't understand what's happening. They see something they don't like and it upsets them--because they don't have the full story, aren't personally facing the problem, and don't know how much worse the alternative could be. | crime detectives mystery police | Jim Butcher | |
| 1e2ac39 | We're all the hero of our own story. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ad7577f | Mister didn't come with me on cases, being above such trivial matters, but he found me pleasant company when I was at home and not moving around too much, except when he didn't, in which case he went rambling | Jim Butcher | ||
| 643f32e | Woof," said Billy the Werewolf." | Jim Butcher | ||
| cc42669 | Rowl reminded himself that cats were eternally patient, and that he would not simply explode if he did not fling himself from Littlemouse's arms and go exploring. Which was not to say that he could not do so if he wished, because cats were also their own masters. He decided that his patience was practically legendary- which was fortunate... | patience | Jim Butcher | |
| a4ad9bd | Dawn is significant, magically speaking. It is a time of new beginnings. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1337269 | Cowl's apprentice was tough and competent, but no amount of training or forethought can prepare you for the sight of an angry dinosaur coming to eat your ass. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cd980ce | Predator is not property," Grimm said in a calm, level tone. "She is not my possession. She is my home. Her crew are not my employees. They are my family. And if you threaten to take my home and destroy the livelihood of my family again, Commodore, I will be inclined to kill you where you stand." | cinder-spires the-aeronaut-s-windlass | Jim Butcher | |
| 844b910 | And if I was to die, I was not going to go out in a gibbering heap of terror. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 26ffc88 | My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him. By contrast, I could barely talk to a woman, at least about anything pertaining to a relationship. Given that my only long-term girlfriends had faked their own death, died, and broken free of enslaving enchantments to end the relationship, the empirical evidence seemed to indicate that he knew something I d.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2304be5 | So, what's the score, Billy asked. Well-intentioned but dangerously insane bad guys are ahead, coming down the stretch, I said. The faerie courts are duking it out up there, and it's probably going to be very hairy. The Summer Lady is our baddie, and the Winter Knight is her bitch. She has a magic hanky. She's going to use it to change a statue into a girl and kill her on a big Flinstone's table at midnight. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5cbf8b7 | My imagination needs therapy"." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9e7f4c0 | I didn't look up, occupied as I was with brooding, a famous pastime of wizards everywhere. | Jim Butcher | ||
| aa4b63b | I... drew out the gun I kept at home, a great big old Dirty Harry Callahan number that weighed about seventy-five thousand pounds. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ee7912f | His voice was like the rest of him - about as exciting as a W-2. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1840d9e | I listened. Listening isn't hard to do. No one has practice at it, nowadays, but you can train yourself to pay attention to your senses if you work at it long enough. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0f04511 | Never walk into a fight when the bad guys are the ones who set it up. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 491c7ae | Thomas took a slow breath. His silver eyes grew even brighter. It was creepy as hell and fascinating. "I was hoping you knew a good spot. I sure as hell can't take him to my place." Molly's voice sharpened. "I don't even a place," she said. "I still live at my parents' house." "Less whining," Thomas said, his voice cool. "More telling me a place to take him where he won't be killed." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8637b5f | Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful--but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living. It made everything else mean more; beauty was more pure, more bright, pleasure more full and complete, laughter deeper, more satisfying--and contentment more perfect, more peaceful. | Jim Butcher | ||
| efea42d | her look dared me to make some kind of chivalrous commentary. I didn't, and she didn't break my nose, by way of fair exchange. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d4bb574 | Wow. That's sort of pretty. In a kind of way. | devour faeries jaws pizza | Jim Butcher | |
| eb00068 | Chew and smile? At the same time? Do I look like Jackie Chan? | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1ebb610 | Look," I said. "Me and the island are . . . kind of partners." "Oh, right," Thomas said. He looked at Karrin and said, "Harry's a geosexual." | Jim Butcher | ||
| bb050bb | Why do you think I do it?" He shrugged. "All I can figure is that either you're nursing a deep and sadistic self-hatred or else you're insane." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2eae8e8 | She was furious that I had seen her true form, horrified and embarrassed that I had stripped her disguise away and seen the creature beneath. And she was afraid that I could take away even her mask, forever, with my power. | Jim Butcher | ||
| da0ad4d | Very few people understand that swords aren't dangerous, Tavi, nor hands nor arms, nor furies. Minds are dangerous. Wills are dangerous. You are heavily armed with both. | Jim Butcher | ||
| aefeebe | I run--and not so that I'll be skinny and look good, either. I run so that when something that wants to kill me is chasing me, I'll be good at running. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 993ab59 | Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I said. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f28e3da | I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5f91436 | Wars and plans can't coexist, sir. One of them kills the other. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c5d5216 | What can I say? I put the 'ick' in 'magic'. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3fd11af | Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for. | life | Jim Butcher | |
| 7289f2a | What is this thing you speak of, 'sleep'? | Jim Butcher | ||
| 91f63e9 | If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it. | gangster mob star-wars | Jim Butcher | |
| aca408e | I scowled. "Murphy's made of muscle. You just can't see it under the suit and the body armor," I said. "And she hasn't gotten lucky with me either." Ascher stared at me for a second and blinked slowly. "You're . . . serious, aren't you?" "We're complicated," I said. "Because you're twitchy?" "And she's had a couple of divorces. And her ex-boyfriend kind of shot me." "What?" "I asked him to," I said hurriedly. "What?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| bb2213f | The reward for work well-done is more work. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7bcfc5d | You want it. I can see it in you." I gritted my teeth. "The part of me that wants it doesn't get a vote," I said." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8fb4cbb | You know he's not going to honor the truce," I said quietly. "He's going to try to take me out somewhere along the line. He's going to betray me." "Of course," she said. "I expect superior, more creative treachery on your part." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 37d28fa | I was doing the new Summer Lady a favor, running down a rogue storm sylph. Got to go all over the place in those tornado-chaser geekmobiles. You should have seen the look on the driver's face when he realized that the tornado was chasing . | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 3cea057 | None of my issues have included memory loss or unconscious actions," she said. Thomas squinted back at her. "If they had, how would you know it?" Molly frowned. "Valid point." | funny wizard | Jim Butcher |