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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 66325fc | Your death doesn't belong to me. We flipped a coin. I lost. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5565c0c | Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 33dcb67 | He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6c9ebc7 | You know how to use magic?" I asked. "I prefer calculus." | Jim Butcher | ||
| c94281b | There's a big yellow exclamation point floating over his head." After a brief pause, I added, "I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested." | Jim Butcher | ||
| b363a0f | I hear that they make disinfectants that don't hurt these days. But Charity used iodine. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 49798a8 | Duty flows uphill and down." He" | Jim Butcher | ||
| bdb0cbe | I kind of felt bad for them. Getting punched out by a dame was not going to pad their goon resumes. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 936205d | Books were expensive, as well. But she'd read enough of them to know that they were only as valuable as the contents of their writers' minds--and to her it seemed that a great many writers, had they been merchants, would have precious little inventory. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0eb144c | What one deserves and what one experiences are seldom congruent. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3b82eef | duty was a cold and barren shelter for a wounded spirit. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f29808c | It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d380d1b | More than anything, she wanted to be someplace warm and safe--but duty was a cold and barren shelter for a wounded spirit. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7d46c2f | Peace cannot be bought, Aleron," he murmured to LaFortier. "History teaches that lesson. I learned it. You should have, too." LaFortier" -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| 051268a | Then why, Michael asked "are you expecting perfection out of yourself? Do you really think you're that much better than the rest of us? That your powers make you a higher quality of human being? That your knowledge places you on a higher plane than everyone else on this world?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| f3ad437 | guard glowered at me in silence, of course. It was an act. No one could resist my bluff and manly charisma. In his heart of hearts, he wanted to be friends with me. I just knew it. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c831932 | You can use just about anything to make a magic circle, but salt is often the most practical. It's a symbol of the earth and of purity, and it doesn't draw ants. You use sugar to make a circle on the carpet only once. Let me tell you. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 79a21c6 | Beer, brewed in cauldrons the size of houses by machines and then served cold. It has no soul. It isn't worthy of the name. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c3126c2 | I'd fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 075f664 | Never again. Tell them that. Never again. Or Hell itself will not hide you from me. | never-again | Jim Butcher | |
| 5297f11 | With your head, the wall breaks first. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 59ebf9d | One more tip, kids. If you had any real talent, the air would practically have been on fire when you got ready to throw down. But you losers don't have enough magic between you to turn cereal into breakfast. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 90843fe | That's kind of awesome," I said. "Children frequently are," Michael said." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 728c527 | I was a man seeking power. For good reasons, maybe. But I wasn't going to lie to myself or anyone else about my actions. If I killed him, I would be taking a life, something that was not mine to take. I would be committing deliberate, calculated murder. | Jim Butcher | ||
| caac411 | Gimme a minute," I said, and felt myself baring my teeth in a grin. "How does the leg feel?" "I've had worse," Michael said, his voice strained. He shifted his weight, testing the leg, and made a hissing sound--but it supported his weight. "Only a flesh wound." "Yeah," I said. "'Tis but a scratch. Come on, ya pansy." He blinked and looked at me. "Pansy?" "Oh," I said. "You weren't quoting the movie. Sorry." "Movie?" "Holy Grail?" "Nicodemus.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8e3a886 | Dresden," he said quietly. "Yeah?" "I didn't tell anyone about Molly. What she tried to do to Ana. I . . . I didn't tell." I stared at him, unable to speak. His eyes became cloudy. "Do you know why I didn't? Why I came to you?" I shook my head. "Because I knew," he whispered. He lifted his right hand, and I gripped it hard. "I knew that you knew how it felt to be an innocent man hounded by the Wardens." It was the closest he'd ever come to .. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9fb71df | I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a4d504d | You humans have the potential to be the most wonderful beings there are--if you can get past all these enormous stupid spots you seem to have in your hearts. It's not your fault. You just don't know how to work your hearts right yet. That's why there are dogs. I think it's nice to know your purpose. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 883691d | Dresden," she said, "I cannot stress to you enough how vital it is that we avoid general hostilities, even with a relatively small power." Translation: Don't start another war, Harry. "But," she continued, "we can afford to lose the paths through Winter even less." Translation: Unless you really have to." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4ea5f46 | That was silly, to think that they would not love each other--but sometimes humans are slow to figure things out, because they are heart-stupid. You are, too. That's okay. Just get a dog. Dogs can teach you all kinds of things about your heart. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b8960d7 | make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d388466 | Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him. | self-esteem self-respect | Jim Butcher | |
| 04049ea | Onions! Fresh, hot, sweet onions," Sam called as Mary Lou pulled the cart down Main Street. "Eight cents a dozen." It was a beautiful spring morning. The sky was painted pale blue and pink--the same color as the lake and the peach trees along its shore. Mrs. Gladys Tennyson was wearing just her nightgown and robe as she came running down the street after Sam. Mrs. Tennyson was normally a very proper woman who never went out in public withou.. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 8a9ec39 | Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 587dbab | I've lost everything in this world, and it's clean gone, forever-- and now I can't lose heaven, too; no, I can't get to be wicked, besides all. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 8500007 | Eliza," said George, "people that have friends, and houses, and lands, and money, and all those things, can't love as we do, who have nothing but each other. ... And your loving me,--why, it was almost like raising one from the dead! I've been a new man ever since! And now, Eliza, I'll give my last drop of blood, but they shall not take you from me. Whoever gets you must walk over my dead body." | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| db61388 | Now, there's no way with servants, but to put them down, and keep them down. It was always natural to me, from a child. Eva is enough to spoil a whole house-full. What will she do when she comes to keep house herself, I'm sure I don't know. I hold to being kind to servants - I always am; but you must make 'em know their place. Eva never does; there's no getting into the child's head the first beginning of an idea what a servant's place is! .. | servants | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 9c58c22 | It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,>> said Alfred. | irony virtues | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| ed795a0 | Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 4b95037 | I believe I'm done for," said Tom. "The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so." | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| e73b0ed | Talk about keeping slaves, as if we did it for our convenience," said Marie. "I'm sure, if we consulted that, we might let them all go at once." Evangeline fixed her large, serious eyes on her mother's face, with an earnest and perplexed expression, and said, simply, "What do you keep them for, mamma?" "I don't know, I'm sure, except for a plague; they are the plague of my life. I believe that more of my ill health is caused by them than by.. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 38ff5e4 | Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads his way back to the terrors and perils of that dark land, that he may bring out his sister, or mother, or wife. | fugitive-slave heroism love risk slavery | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| a6ff9e2 | Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion. | injustice people-s-revolution slavery | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 8cdd38e | His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |