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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f7c494d | I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 490045d | The Queen closed her eye and nodded. She opened it again, and there was a tear tracking down her face. "I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 130ce3a | Bernard had become, not so much important to her as he was natural to her whole being. He was as much a part of her thoughts as breath, food, and sleep. At once present and not present, conspicuous with his absence and filling her with a sense of completion when he was there. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4cac22f | It is going to work," I told her, keeping my tone confident. "We'll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us." Justine glanced at me with an arched eyebrow. "The Rack?" "The Rack is more than just boobs, Justine," I told her soberly. "It's an energy field created by all living boobs. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together." | Jim Butcher | ||
| ae8810f | Well," Antillus Raucus said. "There it is." "Brilliant last words," Phrygius said beside him. "We'll put them on your memorium. Right next to, 'He died stating the obvious.' " "Ah," Lord Placida said. "It begins." "See?" Phrygius said. "Sandos knows how to go out with style." "You want to go out with style, I'll strangle you with your best silk tunic," growled Antillus." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 50134d1 | Fuego!" shouted someone on the walls - and for a second I was hit with a little sting of insult. Someone was shouting "fuego" and it wasn't me." -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5eba89a | You have to find solutions where you can, not where convenient. | Jim Butcher | ||
| db871ca | He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, "You are an untidy person." I put my hand over my heart, grinning at him. "Ow." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4383104 | It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are," Benedict said, his tone amused. "It works particularly well against those who aren't as intelligent as you in the first place." | intelligence sneaky | Jim Butcher | |
| 8acfe34 | Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively." | Jim Butcher | ||
| dd481c2 | Maybe," he said in a slow, rural drawl, "You could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy." "Well," I said. "If you're going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn't it." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9ba7855 | The government isn't the mob, Harry." "Aren't they?" I asked. "Pay them money every year to protect you, and God help you if you don't." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0a21859 | I hate dreams like this," I said. "There's no plot--just random weird things happening. I get enough of that when I'm awake." | Jim Butcher | ||
| ce8f751 | could have cried aloud in exultation when my scrutiny disclosed the almost invisible incrustation of particles of carbonized electrons which are thrown off by these Martian torches. It | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| d5abd4e | the countless unnamed jewels of Mars, | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| fb558ec | help yourselves to equilibrimotors and pray to your ancestors that no air patrol suspects you as you cross the city towards your destination. What think you of this plan, Gor Hajus?" "It is splendid," replied the assassin. "And you, Vad Varo?" "If I knew what an equilibrimotor is I might be in a better position to judge the merits of the plan," I replied." | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| c1afc7b | Suddenly I came to myself and, with that strange instinct which seems ever to prompt me to my duty, | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 3861b8c | There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| f9543cd | Why, I never did believe it, | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 9f2ff97 | If man spoke only when he had something worth while to say and said that as quickly as possible, ninety-eight per cent of the human race might as well be dumb, thereby establishing a heavenly harmony from pate to tonsil. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| ff61592 | The things which the Stygian darkness hid from my objective eye could not have been half so wonderful as the pictures which my imagination wrought as it conjured to life again the ancient peoples of this dying world and set them once more to the labours, the intrigues, the mysteries and the cruelties which they had practised to make their last stand against the swarming hordes of the dead sea bottoms that had driven them step by step to the.. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 94346da | Why does The Sheik, my father, not love me, too? | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 71f7ba7 | Only thus may we carry the truth to those without, and though the likelihood of our narrative being given credence is, I grant you, remote, so wedded are mortals to their stupid infatuation for impossible superstitions, we should be craven cowards indeed were we to shirk the plain duty which confronts us." | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| dccd412 | I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently," said the captain." | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 56bbe64 | For an instant I was dumbfounded. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 05f82c6 | Waking or sleeping, it seemed that she constantly saw that dark body dropping, swift and silent, into the cold, grim sea. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 331ac10 | Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| f7771e5 | The magnificent diamond locket which hung about Tarzan's neck, had been a source of much wonderment to Jane. She pointed to it now, and Tarzan removed it and handed the pretty bauble to her. She saw that it was the work of a skilled artisan and that the diamonds were of great brilliancy and superbly set, but the cutting of them denoted that they were of a former day. She noticed too that the locket opened, and, pressing the hidden clasp, sh.. | clayton jane lady-alice locket tarzan tarzan-of-the-apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| a41e361 | My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. As I gazed upon it I felt a spell of overpowering fascination--it was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron. | lodestone mars red star | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 6370538 | We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 5df1a6c | It is the duty of a high priestess to instruct, to interpret -- according to the creed that others, wiser than herself, have laid down; but there is nothing in the creed which says that she must believe. The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes -- no one living knows more of mine than I. (La of Opar) | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| f8690fb | So glorious does love transfigure its object"~Tarzan" | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| e2efd73 | And then again, had I declared myself I should have robbed the woman I love of the wealth and position that her marriage to Clayton will now insure to her. I could not have done that--could I, Paul? | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 14e0d57 | the bridesmaid's hand in his, "Hazel and I think it would be ripping to make it a double wedding." The" | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| c5ee717 | He killed for food most often, but, being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| c87a2cb | It was on the morning of the second day that the first link was forged in what was destined to form a chain of circumstances ending in a life for one then unborn such as has never been paralleled in the history of man. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 0c62224 | Only once did I perceive a human being, and that was at the intersection of our crossroad with the wide, white turnpike which cuts each cultivated district longitudinally at its exact center. The fellow must have been sleeping beside the road, for, as I came abreast of him, he raised upon one elbow and after a single glance at the approaching caravan leaped shrieking to his feet and fled madly down the road, scaling a nearby wall with the a.. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| b4f3aa1 | It is a strange tale and utterly Barsoomian. | strange tale | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| bfcb1ae | As a matter of fact I presume I gave little attention to seeking an excuse, for I love a good fight too well to need any other reason for joining in when one is afoot. So | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| f52f48d | Thuvia of Ptarth was having difficulty in determining the exact status of the Prince of Helium in her heart. She | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 24a81a3 | E cosi, nel cuore di una citta dove infuriava un conflitto selvaggio, piena di grida guerresche, mentre la morte e la distruzione mietevano dovunque un sanguinoso raccolto, Dejah Thoris, Principessa di Helium, vera figlia di Marte, Dio della Guerra, si promise in sposa a John Carter, gentiluomo della Virginia | edgar-rice-burroughs | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 3e05b84 | I have long had in mind a plan to thwart death, but it required another with skill equal to mine--two such might live for ever. I have selected you to be that other, for reasons that I already have explained--they are undefiled by sentimentalism. I did not choose you because I love you, or because I feel friendship for you, or because I think that you love me, or feel friendship towards me. I chose you because I knew that of all the inhabit.. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 5e271e6 | It is quite simple, being nothing more than a radium generator diffusing radio-activity in all directions to a distance of a hundred yards or so from the flier. Should | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 62c90f0 | Her queenly head was poised haughtily upon her smooth red shoulders. Her | Edgar Rice Burroughs |