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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 658a1a9 | I don't have a career, I don't have a family, and I don't know what to do next. I've been so determined to escape anything permanent, and now I just feel like I'm nowhere. And what if that's the permanent thing by default? | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 59fcacd | If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 952d890 | The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them. | tears | Jonathan Tropper | |
| bec1b02 | He has always had a dangerous tendency to embrace blind optimism in the face of hard facts. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 3c796a6 | The future just isn't what it used to be | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 336c233 | In real life, you don't get to choose what you forget. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 199080b | Good sex requires many different things, but in most cases, efficiency isn't one of them. - Judd Foxman | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| a53d004 | None of us makes eye contact. We have pretty much had it with each other. We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure. - Judd Foxman | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 23ed7ef | Maybe yelling back is a kind of marital diplomacy | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 7df0e67 | I lost something after Hailey died. I'm not sure what to call it, but it's the device that stops ypu from telling the truth when people ask you how you're doing, that vital valve that keeps you deeper, truer emotions under lock and key. I don't know exactly when I lost it, or how to get it back, but for now when it comes to tact, civility, and discretion, I'm an accident waiting to happen, over and over again. Socially, that makes me somet.. | fear death protectiveness wall | Jonathan Tropper | |
| ec70bbd | Sometimes, commitment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 8d7c924 | The women look each other over as they chat, measuring thighs, bellies, hips, and asses, taking into account body types and recent pregnancies. They silently evaluate and pass judgment, realigning themselves in the pecking order. It's a brutal business, being a woman. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 0375e5f | At some point, loneliness become less a condition than a habit. In time, you stop looking at your phone wondering why you can't think of anyone to call, stop getting you hair cut, stop working out, stop thinking that tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. Because tomorrow is today, and today is yerterday, and yesterday beat the shit out of you and brought you to your knees. The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for someth.. | loneliness | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 6bcfac8 | You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 4826a52 | In my family, we don't so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| b256e4d | Perhaps the purpose of life is forged moment by moment. If you're going to wait till you find something "bigger than that" before you do anything, then you're doing a sixties kind of "I can't do anything till I find myself." | Laura C. Schlessinger | ||
| 6e6bcf1 | There is, I believe, no such thing as unconditional self-acceptance. Those who say so are promulgating a pernicious lie. One must first live a decent, honorable and productive life. Only then do you get to feel good about yourself. Seeking to heedlessly gratify your desires or impulses of the moment to do things (or fail to do things) your conscience knows to be contrary to your standards of right, worthy and virtuous behavior is, in a ment.. | Laura Schlessinger | ||
| 24321f7 | Just hanging around the house is deadly--get out and experience the world together; do things you've never done before! | Laura Schlessinger | ||
| c33df72 | I'm married, honey. My social life consists of work, church, taxiing the kids around and trying to schedule sex with my husband at least once a month. | marriage | Marilyn Pappano | |
| 6007a97 | If you want to live, if you want your friends and family to live, I expect you to do more than survive it," Mab said, sweeping out. "I expect you to skin them alive." | Jim Butcher | ||
| b8a0cc1 | Race me back. Beat me there, and I'll tell you." I blinked. "What kind of kindergarten crap is that?" His grey eyes flashed with anger. "You want to know what it's like? Beat me down the beach." "Of all the ridiculous, immature nonsense," I said. Then I hooked a foot behind Thomas's calf, shoved him down to the sand, and took off down the beach at a dead sprint." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4867874 | Shame, child, is for those who fail to live up to the ideal of what they believe they should be. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d29f922 | He nodded. "Someone really would get suspicious if they saw you roaming around. If I need you I'll give you a signal." "What signal?" "I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl," he said with a waggle of his eyebrows. He headed out the door. "Back in a minute." | Jim Butcher | ||
| b1be7e1 | I can't tell you how many jobs I've done without a hitch since the last time I saw you, Dresden. You walk through the door and everything goes to hell." "That's embroidered on my towels, actually," I said." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8a28cd8 | Harry," Bob said. "Stars and skies, you're all right!" He hesitated for a second, and then said, "And looking grim. Even dressed in boxers with yellow duckies on them." I glanced down, and did my best to picture a vampire wearing boxers with yellow duckies. Or a wizard wearing yellow duckies, for that matter." | Jim Butcher | ||
| a4232d6 | Dammit, man. I'm a Faerie Princess, not a forensic analyst." I" | Jim Butcher | ||
| a52493f | Things were weird enough without needing to ride around in a van with a bunch of naked, somewhat geeky college students. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d6f75d9 | Martin was alphabetizing my bookshelves. They used to kill men for sacrilege like that. | Jim Butcher | ||
| df77cec | The curve of her smile promised things that were probably illegal, and bad for you, and would carry warnings from the Surgeon General, but that you'd still want to do over and over again. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d7eb62a | And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago? | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1fa5a5e | Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5f47ff2 | There is something holy, something divine, hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.' 'What's that supposed to mean?' I asked. 'That the good that will come is not always obvious. Nor easy to see. Nor in the place we would expect to find it. Nor what we personally desire. You should consider that the good being created by the events this night may have nothing to do with the defeat of supernatur.. | inspirational | Jim Butcher | |
| 642ddd7 | Even days that culminate in a grand battle against an insane ghost and a trip across the border between this world and the spirit realm usually start out pretty normally. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3a3d506 | what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ccad6b6 | After the way I left, I suddenly find myself wanting very much to go home. But . . . it won't be the same when I get back. Will it?" "It will be the same," Grimm said. "You're the one who has changed." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 44cfdb8 | And it was all your fault, Harry. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c8961a5 | Attention, shoppers! Discount specials on Harry Dresden's life. Slightly used, no refunds, limit one per customer. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 513d711 | At that, Ascher stood up. "Hi," she said, smiling brightly. "You don't know me. I'm Hannah. Back off my partner before you get hurt." "I know who you are, hot stuff," I drawled, not standing. I set my staff down across the table. "And I already backed off your partner. You can tell from how there aren't any splatter marks. Play nice, Ascher." Her smile vanished at my response, and her dark eyes narrowed. She drummed her nails on the tableto.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3fb2395 | 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 | ||
| fb54b9c | There are no words. It was like The Lord of the Rings and All My Children made a baby with the Macho Man Randy Savage and a Whac-A-Mole machine. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c4fe19c | Back to my apartment? The FBI is there just waiting to slap handcuffs on me." "Well then I guess you shouldn't have decided to become a terrorist, Harry!" "Hey, I never--" Bob raised his voice and shouted toward the centipedes, "I'm not with him!" | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| f771b65 | There was a small stone in her palm, a deep blue opal. I leaned a little closer, eyeing it. It was set on a silver stud--an earring. "It should suffice to contain the parasite for what time remains," Mab said. "Put it on." "My ears aren't pierced," I objected. Mab arched an eyebrow. "Are you the Winter Knight or some sort of puling child?" I scowled at her. "Come over here and say that." At that, Mab calmly stepped onto the shore of Demonre.. | mortal-thing harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| d5c5cea | Susan's fingers wandered, and her eyes sparkled. "Your mouth says no," she purred, "but says yes." I went up on my toes, and swallowed, trying to keep my balance and get her hand off me at the same time. "That thing is saying something stupid," I told her." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f747745 | That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate. | humor grammar | Jim Butcher |