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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4060edf | What is teaching but the art of planting and nurturing power?" Lea replied. "Mortals prattle on about lonely impulses of delight and the gift of knowledge, and think that teaching is a trade like metalsmithing or healing or telling lies on television. It is not. It is the dissemination of power unto a new generation and nothing less. For her, as for you, lessons demand real risk in order to attain their true rewards." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 611e1bc | Yeah, chocolate. Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment. One | Jim Butcher | ||
| 54be1a1 | Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out of crepe paper and duct tape and boasted a computer system that looked like it could have run the NYSE and NORAD, with enough attention left over to play tic-tac-toe. Or possibly Global Thermonuclear War. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c6835b7 | Now that I've got this to keep me safe off the island," I said very quietly, "what's to stop me from having Alfred drop you into a cell right this second, and solving my problems myself?" "I am," Mab said. She gave me a very small, very chill smile, and held up her finger. There was a tiny droplet of my blood upon it, scarlet against her pale skin." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 72f9ae1 | Sometimes, being able to use magic was so cool. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e0e1454 | Evil food smells amazing--which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn't actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can't decide. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0c17ca1 | I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 35b1af8 | If you're ever in a spooky situation and have a strong instinct that you are being watched, hunted, or followed, I advise you not to treat those instincts lightly. | Jim Butcher | ||
| fadeb7a | If you're right, they aren't the deceased," Murphy said. "They're the victims. Big difference. Which is it?" "Wish I could say," I said. "But the only evidence that could prove it one way or another is leaking out onto the floor. If we get a survivor, maybe I could take a peek and see, but barring that, we're stuck with legwork." Murphy sighed and looked down. "Two suicide pacts could--technically--be a coincidence. Three of them, no way it.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 201db2b | Unfortunately, my head wasn't getting thoughts through to my mouth. "You aren't . . . I'm not sure if I can . . . Karrin, I want this, but . . ." "It's all right," she said quietly. "I'm not sure," I said again. I wanted her. But I wanted it to be about more than desire. I could have that if I wanted--mindless, empty sex is not exactly in short supply among the Sidhe of Winter. But that kind of thing can eat you hollow, if you let it. And K.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ce71e47 | Her looks were almost extraneous. They weren't any more important to her appeal than a glass was to wine. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 20fdceb | Mortals prattle on about lonely impulses of delight and the gift of knowledge, and think that teaching is a trade like metalsmithing or healing or telling lies on television. It is not. It is the dissemination of power unto a new generation and nothing less. For her, as for you, lessons demand real risk in order to attain their true rewards. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 546a479 | Describing something helps to define it, to give it limits, to set guardrails of understanding around it. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 60c16ef | Magic comes from life, from the energy of our world and from people, from their emotions and their will. That's what I had always been taught. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 165bb43 | When a single cat let loose a war cry, it was an unsettling sound. When two cats suddenly wailed at each other in a similar fashion, it was downright unnerving. When of them caterwauled at the same time, in a single voice, the sound alone was enough to make one feel as if the skin had been peeled from one's muscle and bone, to call up horrors inherited from ancestors long since dead and forgotten, raw terror before a deadly predator. | cats eerie scary war-cry | Jim Butcher | |
| 7a44a5c | They always have good coffee here," Ebenezar said a few moments later. "And they don't call it funny names," I said. "It's just coffee. Not frappalattegrandechino." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 12a026c | Solution: Winchester. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cd35df2 | What do you do to make up for failing everyone in your life? How do you make it right? How do you apologize for hideous things you never intended to happen? | Jim Butcher | ||
| d5a1834 | Chicago is what a polite person would call a colorful place. It's a den of crime and corruption. And it's a monument to architecture and enterprise. It's violent and dangerous, and an epicenter of music and the arts. The good, the bad, the ugly, the sublime, monsters and angels--they're all here. The | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8427fd2 | you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3ddc941 | I remember very little of my father, but one thing I do remember is him telling me always to be polite. It costs you nothing but breath, and can buy you as much as your life. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0e915e1 | That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington's been doing it like that for decades. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4571bea | My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a77447a | It didn't smell so great, and pizza boxes and empty Coke cans had overflowed the trash can and spilled over a significant portion of the kitchen floor. You could barely walk without stepping on clothing that needed to be washed. My furniture was covered with scribbled-on papers and discarded pens and pencils. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0064981 | He died in his sleep one night. An aneurysm, the doctors said. I found him, cold, smiling. Maybe he'd been dreaming of Mother when he went. And as I looked at him, I suddenly felt, for the very first time in my life, utterly, entirely alone. That something was gone that would never return, that a little hole had been hollowed out inside of me that wasn't ever going to be filled again. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5c8d283 | bright, flowery plants... were busy committing the olfactory equivalent of aggravated assault. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7308be4 | I had three days to screw over Nicodemus Archleone and his crew and get this thing out of my head, without getting myself or my friend killed while I did it. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3881494 | Fuck a Smurf and call him Gimpy, is that who I think it is? | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5ad721c | Look, people go on and on about how size isn't everything, and how the bigger they are, the harder they fall, but the people who say that probably haven't ever faced down a charging demon-bear so big it should have been on a drive-in movie screen. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 84d2154 | but once you put all the stupid things I do aside, I'm really not all that interesting. I like reading, staying home, going on walks with my dog--it's like I'm already a retiree. Who wants to hear about that? Especially when I would have to scream it over the music to which no one dances. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3414434 | They're always too strong. There's always more of them, and they're always too strong. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3f0d81b | Beards grow out so fast that if you shave every day, there isn't much of a window for anyone to use them against you--and shaved stubble is too diffuse to make a decent channel anyway. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ee7ddb3 | I'm getting my ass kicked by tiny faeries!" I shouted back, fumbling to start the car. "They've got my freaking number!" "Run away!" Bob giggled. "Run away! Tiny faeries!" growled in frustration and popped the Redcap's hat down over Bob. "Stop being a jerk. This is serious." Bob's voice was only barely muffled. It sounded like he couldn't breathe. "Serious! Tiny! Faeries! The m-m- mighty wizard Dresden!" | faeries harry-dresden humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 216480e | The Denarians want to disrupt civilization, and with the Archive under their control, they could do it. Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry." -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| b95190c | I didn't follow her right away. She didn't look back. Stab. Twist. God, I love being a wizard. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 358cfff | How long do I have to take care of it?" I asked. "SOON." "Soon? How soon is soon? What do you mean, soon?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 25db580 | A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ef87b0e | to whom much is given, much is required. | Jim Butcher | ||
| fd1c507 | Vadderung grinned. "I've never heard it phrased quite like that, but it's accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it's a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 473c363 | I am pure of heart and mind," I told her. "I cannot be corrupted." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5c63b0a | Whatever," I said. "It's getting cloying in here. Are we there yet?" He smiled. "Jerk." "Wuss." "Jackass." "Pansy." "Philistine." "Dandysprat." "Butthead." "Whiner ..." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2dee4bd | He's a rather brilliant defensive tactician," Grimm said. "I agree," Bayard said. "The problem is that he's an inept defensive strategist." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 291845b | We wizards are terrific at brooding. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1af824e | He sees the color blue," the etherealist said. "But his color blue. Not yours." | Jim Butcher |