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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 59c5399 | It's a shadelight. Some of my men put one up whenever I lose a member of the crew. To light his shade's way back to his bunk, so he can rest. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0a712a9 | But mostly, it ends badly when wizards try to stay too close to their kin. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 09fb96c | I look at things and think about them,' Folly replied. 'And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3b47a55 | But 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. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5768b45 | HOW CAN YOU KNOW THIS?" the Voice demanded. "I look at things and think about them," Folly replied. "And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply." | studying | Jim Butcher | |
| 8f8aa0d | Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day. | passion | Jim Butcher | |
| f7bae26 | Because it needs to be said," she murmured. "Because that's what happened. You deserve to know that." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 73f1176 | The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f1cdef1 | 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 decided by simple numbers. It saves us time and no end of trouble counting actual bodies--but don't mistake it for anything but ritualized violence. And every few years, if the person we elected doesn'.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 595c99c | I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern." A" | Jim Butcher | ||
| f3e2c9e | From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a9b030e | I know. It makes my head hurt too. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c839a86 | But I'd never been very good at expressing myself verbally. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d4aa837 | It's another in a long list of things that Martians hardly ever think about: Almost any woman knows that almost any man is stronger than she is. Oh, men know they're stronger, but they seldom actually stop to think through the implications of that simple reality--implications that are both unnerving and virtually omnipresent, if you aren't a Martian. You think about life differently when you know that half the people you see have the physic.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 819c60e | I know what it's like to lose it. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4d00be3 | except that Morgan's face was too pinched and thin to pull off the look. "Your point being?" I did my best to keep from looking nervous or impressed. Truth be told, I was both. Morgan was my Warden, assigned to me by the White Council to make sure I didn't bend or break any of the Laws of Magic. He hung about and spied on me, mostly, and usually came sniffing around after I'd cast a spell of some kind. I would be damned if I was going to le.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1ec9d2d | There is no spoon. | funny illusion matrix wizard | Jim Butcher | |
| 31e86b5 | People don't give a flying fuck if Uncle Jeffrey really forgives them for missing his last birthday party. They want to know that the world is a place where Uncle Jeffrey can and should forgive them. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 85c2cdf | No one was standing in the shadows smoking a cigarette or looking about with a shifty-eyed gaze. I couldn't see anyone quickly hiding a bloody knife behind his back or twirling a moustache, either. That ruled out the Dudley Do-Right approach to finding the killer. | Jim Butcher | ||
| dcb27c6 | These evil freaks," Karrin said. "They always pick the most charming places to hang out." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 67070c8 | It was like a fire in my thoughts, my concentration, burning ever more brightly, more pure, refining my anger, my hate, into something steel-hard, steel-sharp. I could feel it burning, and reached for it eagerly, shoving the pain inside to fuel my incandescent anger. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 47ea4d3 | To the best of my knowledge, sir," Benedict said in an apologetic tone, "no one has ever been able to tell my dear cousin anything. At all." | stubbornness | Jim Butcher | |
| ef641b9 | I tapped Boz on the shoulder and said, "Hey, gorgeous." His face twisted in complete surprise, turning to stare in blank incomprehension at mine. I winked at him, and whispered, "Boo." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9af7148 | Get out of the way, Mavra. Or don't get out of the way. If you try to stop us from leaving, if you try to hurt anyone under my protection, you'll be dealing with a Wizard of the Council, a Knight of the Sword and a girl with a basket full of garlic and holy water. I don't care how big, bad, and ugly you are, there won't be anything left of you but a greasy spot on the floor. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9d01ef4 | Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault. | flowers funny smell | Jim Butcher | |
| 732e965 | Make ready to repel boarders. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9b7c163 | When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building. | thinking turmoil walk walking | Jim Butcher | |
| 8faed6f | I know you haven't burned down any buildings in a while," she said, "but if you start feeling the need..." | fire funny wizard | Jim Butcher | |
| 4855930 | I scowled at him. "Not every good thing that happens is divine intervention, Michael." "True," Michael said, "but I prefer to give Him the credit unless I have a good reason to believe otherwise. It seems more polite than the other way around." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0683d73 | Finally, I said, very quietly, 'I don't know if I'm one of the good guys anymore. | good-person | Jim Butcher | |
| a031043 | Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3af2c00 | Mortimer Lindquist seemed to have finally given in to the inevitable. I'd seen him with a bad toupee, and with an even worse comb-over, but this was the first time I'd seen him sporting a full-on Charles Xavier. | funny hair x-men | Jim Butcher | |
| 5a7eebe | Harry waxes poetic about magic. He'll go on and on about how it comes from your feelings, and how it's a deep statement about the nature of your soul, and then he'll whip out some kind of half-divine, half-insane philosophy he's cobbled together from the words of saints and comic books about the importance of handling power responsibly. | harry-dresden spiderman stan-lee | Jim Butcher | |
| 2d3b1cd | and to my dog, without whom I would not be reminded daily that I am essentially little more than a ridiculous human being who has somehow swindled somebody into paying me to write down conversations with my imaginary friends. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9379a93 | That was the entire reason to have battle commanders in the first place--so that one man could balance the advantages of logic and reason against the emotional, insane demands of close battle. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 553550b | After Tolkien I went after C. S. Lewis. After Lewis, it was Lloyd Alexander. After them came Fritz Leiber, Roger Zelazny, Robert Howard, John Norman, Poul Anderson, David Eddings, Weis and Hickman, Terry Brooks, Elizabeth Moon, Glen Cook, | Jim Butcher | ||
| fc03fe4 | I don't trust electronics. Anything manufactured after the forties is suspect--and doesn't seem to have much liking for me. You name it: cars, radios, telephones, TVs, VCRs--none of them seem to behave well for me. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3dcac9f | Life's easier when you can write off others as monsters, as demons, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared. The thing is, you can't do that without becoming them, just a little. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ee74dda | He shook his head. "Love killed the dinosaurs, man." | Jim Butcher | ||
| caf6b61 | Precisely. I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b776ec7 | I find it remarkable how often amateurs confuse courage with idiocy. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cef0318 | MY NAME IS Mouse and I am a Good Dog. Everyone says so. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9b66341 | Death is certain, Aleran--for all of us. That being true, we know that all of those we love will either be torn away from us, or we will be torn away from them. It follows as naturally as the night after sundown. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 67ed8c9 | We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain. | Jim Butcher |