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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c699bb5 | Harry Dresden--I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b2f294d | The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster." "Meaning what, precisely?" "That it reflects a great deal more of yourself to your senses than you probably know." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0ddec49 | see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them," I told him. "It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 387b55c | And I'm the tool," I muttered. Then I thought about it, sighed, and shook my head. "One day," I told myself, "one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 42c63f6 | I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 974ec0e | Octokongs," I pronounced grimly. "Why did it have to be octokongs?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| ace86b5 | Hi, God, it's me, Harry. Please don't turn me into a pillar of salt. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 38d92cb | What did the heroines in dramas and books do in such circumstances? Frequently, it seemed, they would use their feminine wiles upon their male captors, promising them amorous attention and then turning the tables upon the foe when the moment was right (But before, of course, sacrificing anything like their virtue for the cause). Bridget hadn't been an agent of the Spirearch for very long, but she felt that she had the concept sufficiently s.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0e085a8 | Five white candles surrounded my summoning circle, the points of an invisible pentacle. White for protection. And because they're the cheapest color at Wal-Mart. Hey, being a wizard doesn't make money grow on trees. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1ce9f34 | I react badly to fear. I don't usually have the good sense to run, or hide--I just try to smash whatever it is that is making me afraid. It's a primitive sort of thing, and one I don't question too much. | Jim Butcher | ||
| aaa6f73 | It only means what you decide it means. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f5e2f26 | That's the difficult part of being mortal. Of having choice. Much is hidden from you. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3bf35da | She had never gotten it through her gentle head that there was a time for a soft paw and a time for red claws. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 221af3b | He clenched his hands into fists and opened them again several times, as though strangling baby ducks. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cf9071f | You are a rare kind of crazy, man. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2f051b3 | You almost got yourself killed," she said, but her voice had softened a few shades. I noticed that she hadn't moved her hand from the other side of Billy's chest and he was looking up at her with an expectant expression. She fell silent, and they stared at one another for a minute. I saw her swallow. Please help me. Young werewolves in love." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f22b2a7 | Those were long odds. Really, really long odds. Ridiculously long odds, really. When you have to measure them in astronomical units, it probably isn't a good bet. | Jim Butcher | ||
| fddfb3f | Life?" I suggested. She shrugged. "Desire. Loneliness. Joy. Pain." "Life," I said." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3360b04 | My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I'm the only openly practicing professional wizard in the country. You can find me in the yellow pages, under "Wizards." Believe it or not, I'm the only one there." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4c0888b | They were donuts of darkness. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 45bfa1f | Death should be a learning experience, after all, or what's the point? | Jim Butcher | ||
| ec81b8b | I told you long ago that being a real wizard means sacrifice. It means knowing things no one else does," he said, still growling. "I told you that it meant that you might have to act upon what you knew, and knew to be right, even though the whole world set its hand against you. Or that you might have to do horrible, necessary things. Do you remember that?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8c42fe3 | Thomas scowled. "An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 097548b | One grip shy of a steering column? Grimm suggested. Ten degrees short of a compass? Aviating without goggles? | Jim Butcher | ||
| ab22fcd | Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5b32f14 | I tried to take that as a life lesson: never underestimate the little people. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5cced69 | None of us had known the layout to Marcone's place, so we'd chosen to approach from the rear, on general principles of sneakiness. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ea958bb | My own aches and bruises and cuts and wounds pained me, but it was an honest, stretchy pain, something that was healing. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 89c018b | Despite my struggles, Mister had been an understanding soul, and I eventually came to realize that I was a part of his little family, and by his gracious consent was allowed to remain in his apartment. Cats. Go figure. I | Jim Butcher | ||
| 79fedbd | Loopy as a crochet convention. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 47f34b0 | BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual. | funny nonsense usual | Jim Butcher | |
| 78de787 | All I said was, "I miss you." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 64a4714 | I parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 626bf75 | Be. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3cb93aa | I could taste the blood in my mouth, from where I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d7f209d | When most people lose control of their anger, someone gets hurt. Maybe someone even gets killed. When it happens to a wizard, insurance companies go broke and there's reconstruction afterward. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3b44225 | My laboratory," I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. "Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hah-hahhhhhh'?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| ec4d86f | Politics is the purview of scoundrels, tyrants, and fools. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 29be53b | It was worse than murder. It was twisted, wretched perversion, as though someone had bludgeoned another person to death with a Botticelli, turned something of beauty to an act of utter destruction. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9143c91 | Butters," he said. "Look. I know it's hard. But there's one way you deal with fear." "How?" I asked him. "You stand up and you kick it in the fucking teeth," | Jim Butcher | ||
| a57d219 | It's easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 725910b | Suppose I tell you to fuck off." "I will no longer be in a playful mood," it purred. "I will come for you. I will kill your blood, your friends, your beasts. I will kill the flowers in your home and the trees in your tiny fields. I will visit such death upon whatever is yours that your very name will be remembered only in curses andtales of terror" | skinwalker | Jim Butcher | |
| 80069ed | Significance is cumulative--but not always obvious. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 14f81bc | Stop learning, start dying, | Jim Butcher |