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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5ebff25 | Deserve's got nothin'-- | Jim Butcher | ||
| b2764f8 | The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go. I | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2a03592 | Ma'am, the way this usually works is that I ask you a question, and then you tell me a lie. If you give me a dishonest answer before I have the chance to ask the question, it offends my sense of propriety." Her" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 19f8cb3 | Such hats often signified humans who considered themselves important, which was adorable for the first few moments and trying ever after. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ef4f609 | Paranoia--because why should the conspiracy theorists get to have all the fun? | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7a0f5fd | She kissed me again, and I returned it in kind, and it was a liquid, smooth thing, as restrained and desperate as the near-still surface of a rushing river. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c31cb6e | Butters blinked and looked at Thomas. "My God," he said. "You've been shot." Thomas hooked a thumb at Butters. "Check out Dr. Marcus Welby, MD, here." "I'd have gone with Doogie Howser, maybe," I said. "Split the difference at McCoy?" Thomas asked. "Perfect." "You've been shot!" Butters repeated, exasperated." | Jim Butcher | ||
| bbc37ea | Pain is there to tell us when we've done something badly--it's a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 18118ff | I pressed past the outer branches of the lilacs and found a small and relatively open space in the middle. Then I waited. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8e69bc0 | Monsters don't care," Michael said. "The damned don't care, Harry. The only way to go beyond redemption is to choose to take yourself there. The only way to do it is to stop caring." | Jim Butcher | ||
| e34e615 | Doing battle with the forces of things trying to kill me, or my friends, or people who can't protect themselves is not a rowdy summer adventure movie. It's a nightmare. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4bcf4a6 | Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4ff5fc0 | rocket launcher like it was a coat. Karrin let him, giving him an edged smile that she directed past him, to the shadows where the Genoskwa lurked. "I didn't kill the accountant," she said quietly. "Nicodemus said not to." That surprised me a little. If she wanted to hide herself from me, she didn't need to go to the effort of lying. All she had to do was stay silent. "He said that to all of us," I said." | Jim Butcher | ||
| db5dc8d | One day," I told myself, "one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool." I" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 21b02fa | It has become a custom among the Legions to promise one's fellows that no matter what happens, they will never lie cold upon the earth. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e1d38ba | the blow made her see stars. There was no time for astronomy in ground fighting, she thought, | Jim Butcher | ||
| 50af705 | How are you going to talk to someone who has no idea?" Grimm said, nodding. "How can you explain something you can't find words for? How can you get someone else to understand something for which they have no frame of reference?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 10ae4cb | Raith smiled. "There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You were made to feel desire. I was made to use it against you. It is the natural cycle. Life and death. Mating and death. Predator and Prey." Raith leaned closer with each word, and brushed his lips against Murphy's throat as he spoke. "Born mortal... | dresden-files house-raith jim-butcher lord-raith urban-fantasy | Jim Butcher | |
| ec370f8 | When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1681adf | Nothing is truly safe in this world--and that being the case, why worry about threats that have not yet appeared? Far wiser to make what preparations one could, face trouble as it arose, and be happy in the meantime. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 282433a | We're a civilized society, are we not?" Esterbrook blinked. "Since when, miss? We're a democracy." "Just what I mean. We have dispensed with violence as a means of governing ourselves, have we not?" "The heart of democracy is violence, Miss Tagwynn," Esterbrook said. "In order to decide what to do, we take a count of everyone for and against it, and then do whatever the larger side wishes to do. We're having a symbolic battle, its outcome d.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| da2f0c2 | 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 that an elephant was like a snake. The second man touched its leg and claimed that an elephant was like a tree. The third man touched its tail, and claimed that the elephant was like a slender rope. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cc92bc3 | That's why black magic is so easy--it comes from lust, from fear and anger, from things that are easy to feed and make grow. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 17e98a0 | My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour. It came from my love of a good steak, from the way I would sometimes cry at a good movie or a moving symphony. From my life. From the hope that I could make things better for someone else, if not always for me. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ba3b10a | wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 807e8f1 | I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6fbd06e | Good man always stands against that. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b56b80e | Whatever the reason, I'm happy to remember the time we had. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5e7ce6f | I'll be patient," I said. "But not forever." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 70df736 | You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5999475 | I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1815a7d | What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around. You see what I mean?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6da1793 | it would only take one dummy to kill us all, and we had four hundred and ninety-nine to spare. | Jim Butcher | ||
| dcb7b51 | Granted, I think it would have been more fun to be Colossus than Shadowcat. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 736a48d | What matters is the success or failure of your will. Your will to overcome human weakness. Your will to work. To learn. I will have no shirkers here, boy. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 89a14f9 | So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4968095 | You need some time in a quiet place, boss. Unkink your brain's do. Mellow your vibe." "Thank you, Doctor Fraud," | Jim Butcher | ||
| e03cba8 | The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice. | harry-dresden humor love michael-carpenter | Jim Butcher | |
| 9e87849 | You can tell a great deal about a person by looking at the people who share his life." Isana" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4305d0e | What could I do? 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 | ||
| 62105d8 | Time to start doing," I whispered." | Jim Butcher | ||
| a8747dc | The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault. My | Jim Butcher | ||
| 31346f4 | Later. Bad habit to get into," Thomas said. "Life's too short." | Jim Butcher | ||
| c77d128 | Stupid's everywhere, every day. | Jim Butcher |