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| 53460e7 | Three blind men were shown an elephant. They touched it with their hands to determine what the creature was. The first man felt the trunk, and claimed the elephant was like a snake. The second man touched its leg and claimed the elephant was like a tree. The third man touched its tail, and claimed that the elephant was like a slender rope." I nodded. "Oh, I get it. All of them were right. All of them were wrong. They couldn't get the whole.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7cdc341 | They'd paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. Maybe it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of these gorillas who has learned to paint. The results would have been of similar quality, and they could have paid in fresh produce. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3d6dec8 | Look, Spanky," I said to Sharkface. "I'm a little busy to be tussling with every random weirdo who is insecure about his junk. Otherwise I would just love to smash you with a beer bottle, kick you in the balls, throw you out through the saloon doors, the whole bit. Why don't you have your people contact my people, and we can do this maybe next week?" "Next week is your self-deprecation awareness seminar," Thomas said. I snapped my fingers. .. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2d8d92a | What's the point in answering, Warden? It's obvious that you've already tried and convicted me. If I tell you I am involved, you will believe me guilty. If I tell you I am not involved, you will believe me guilty. The only thing I can do is deny you your precious moral justification." She lifted a hand to her lips and pantomimed turning a key and throwing it away." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1deb4d4 | I do magic, in one form or another, and that's pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6d5cfbc | Crap," I gasped. "I am not going to be known as the wizard who used his death curse thanks to a bunch of bitty nail guns." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8b4bba1 | Strategy and tactics, discipline and protocol are necessary, but they're just the beginning. You have to know people, Byron. How they think, what motivates them. Watch. Learn. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1949db5 | We all have our demons. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 36ff3f2 | Names are unique sounds and cadences of words that are attached to one specific individual-sort of like a kind of theme music. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 83c6adc | There was no milk in the icebox, and I wasn't pouring Coke onto breakfast cereal. That would just be odd. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 56e1683 | I was staring into a mirror, and I didn't like what I saw there. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 878134e | Faith in what?" "That things will unfold as they are meant to," Forthill said. "That even in the face of an immediate ugliness, the greater picture will resolve into something all the more beautiful." | Jim Butcher | ||
| a514dc5 | The warehouse was a part of the wharves down at the lakeside, and even the chill waters of Lake Michigan were warmer than usual. They filled the air with more than the average water-scent of mud and mildew and eau de dead fishy. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 78a343d | 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 | ||
| 5c0fed4 | Righteous. The real deal. He's honest, loyal, faithful. He lives his ideals. It gives him power. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 87ec594 | I longed for my bed. I longed for sleep. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f5e410a | It's dark, close, cold, and intensely creepy down there. The fact that it was inhabited by things that had no love for mankind and potential radioactivity to boot didn't do much to boost its tourism industry. | Jim Butcher | ||
| df84e4c | Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0d44e70 | The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight--not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2542b7d | now, I still didn't have enough money to pay for all the repairs, and I had set out to fix the door on my own. I hadn't framed it very well, but I try to think positive: The new door was arguably even more secure than the old one--now you could barely get the damned thing open even when it wasn't locked. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b91719a | I can't be under arrest right now," I said back to him. "I don't have the time." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6410af2 | Sometimes, son," Count Calderon said, "you have to acknowledge that your future is in someone else's hands." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0939f30 | You don't gain knowledge without a little pain. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3ae3eb2 | Lord," Michael said. "We walk into darkness now. Our enemies will surround us. Please help to make us strong enough to do what needs to be done. Amen." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 452dc54 | I respected the man. It didn't mean that I wouldn't pants him on national television if I got the opportunity, | Jim Butcher | ||
| f877deb | Butters's voice turned bitter. "Them or us, choose a side?" "It's not about taking sides," Karrin said. "It's about knowing yourself. About understanding why you make the choices you do. Once you know that, you know where to walk, too." | Jim Butcher | ||
| b7965a2 | 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." Butters sputtered" -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| d714c7e | How about it, wizard? Cop? Maybe you've got stones enough to take it when I threaten you. I can admire that. | Jim Butcher | ||
| af6f870 | Once you begin to mass-manufacture anything, by the very nature of the process, you lose the sense of personal attachment you might have to something made by hand. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ec4e995 | Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cb84d82 | I am disturbed by the presence of inordinate levels of coincidence | Jim Butcher | ||
| 645f4ef | I'm afraid you made a serious mistake today." "Sire?" "You proved yourself extraordinarily capable, Captain," Albion said. "I can hardly let something like that go unremarked." "I don't understand, sir," Grimm said, frowning. "Captain, your clarity of thought in the face of unexpected disaster is a rare quality. It's a poor reward for such heroism, but I'm afraid that I must insist upon continuing to use you for the good of my Spire." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9e043a5 | WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b2baeca | Does it hurt to be as suave as you, boss?" "It's agonizing." "Looks it." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f9aab75 | Heroines in dramas, Bridget felt, really ought to have more sense. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 56e5329 | He was wrong, that doesn't make him a villian. That makes him an asshole. | prefect-words | Jim Butcher | |
| ba769a3 | You're dead, son," Jack said. "Cheer is contraindicated." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3780d65 | I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I'm a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers--all that sort of thing. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 65a006d | Speak, then, manling," said Mother Winter. "You have a little time left." | Jim Butcher | ||
| c47f265 | Pain isn't a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain--physical, emotional, and otherwise--is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there to tell us when we've done something badly--it's a teache.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| bc985c9 | Graves aren't for the dead. They're for the loved ones the dead leave behind them. Once those loved ones have gone, once all the lives that have touched the occupant of any given grave had ended, then the grave's purpose was fulfilled and ended. | Jim Butcher | ||
| fcb3d49 | You may never know a night's peace again. Knowledge is power, young man. Power to do good and power to do harm. Some knowledge can hurt. Some can kill. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9021900 | Hell's bells," I muttered. "Harry, you idiot, when will you learn not to victory gloat?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| d54ee33 | seeing a wizard cut loose can do that to | Jim Butcher |