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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6af4b80 | when a soul turns as black as Black World, these old spirits find them a comfortin' touch of home, and if they're called to move in, they will. That's what a skinwalker is: a mean asshole with a meaner spirit squatting inside." " | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 338c54c | When you're in the middle of a killing field and the fucking Chooser of the Slain tells you to do something, you do it | realism | Kevin Hearne | |
| 22e21dd | What Sherlock does is train his mind to remember details, access them as needed, and then spy the hidden pattern in them. It's like spotting animals in clouds: The vapor's the same for everyone, but sometimes you're the only person who can see what's floating there, because you have the proper angle and the imagination to see it. And that's the magic of Sherlock Holmes--his talent for synthesis and discovery. Anyone can train the mind to ab.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| f8e056e | I don't think there is one. We had our priorities straight. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c7f8c54 | When in doubt, know your way out, I always say." "I thought you always said, 'When in doubt, blame the dark elves.' " "Well, yeah, that too." " | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 63080d5 | I jumped up and down and swore violently in seventeen languages. | humorous iron-druid-chronicles humorous-quotes | Kevin Hearne | |
| bd27e45 | Does anyone have a gun?" The looks I got in response suggested that I'd asked about something profoundly distasteful, like trickle-down economics or the poetry of William Blake." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 421e410 | We should be going in there with a thousand naked warriors who fight like wet cats with dodgy bowels." "You can go naked if you want," the bastard says to me, ignoring my advice." -- | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c9d405b | The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| d4ebd42 | but underneath that lurked horrors, like a syphilitic dick hidden under a blanket. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c30c432 | Trees are always the cure for your modern bollocks. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c04ae46 | They should kick it old school with the Bard.> | Kevin Hearne | ||
| b6d771d | I thought Sundays were supposed to be relaxing. As a male citizen of America, I'm entitled on Sundays to watch athletic men in tight uniforms ritualistically invade one another's territory, and while they're resting I get to be bombarded with commercials about trucks, pizza, beer, and financial services. That's how it's supposed to be; that's the American dream. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c2107d1 | Sophie Betsuie lost her composure and returned to the hogan, crying. She was beating herself up with a club made out of the words if only, and I knew what it felt like. If only I hadn't done this. If only someone else hadn't done that. I hoped she would learn sooner, rather than later, that you can't unchoose anyone's choices, least of all your own. All you can do with your past is try to grow out of it. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 8ff967b | But sometimes we do things that make no sense except in some arcane calculus hidden in our emotions. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 3501d71 | We should make a pit trap with spikes in the bottom. You make the pit and I'll make the spikes. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| bd022a6 | I know that when ye think o' love you're supposed to think o' kissy faces and scented soap and hummin' happy songs together, but there's another vital part to it that people rarely admit to themselves: We want somebody to rescue us from other people. From talking to them, I mean, or from the burden of giving a damn about what they say. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 9159f04 | And we can seek therapy or religion to provide us relief like balm on chafed skin, but that's denying our own power to heal ourselves and trying to silence old pain with new opiates. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c050929 | for now, bread and mead call us, appetites whetted, to witness what I have been nursing, encased in iron, licked by flame, and tended with relish. | poetic-blessings | Kevin Hearne | |
| 3579faa | T]he pain was unspeakable, worse than reading the collected works of Edith Wharton. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7ebdfcb | They were lounging, in fact, in an almost ostentatious manner, as if to say to passersby like myself, "Look uponst my exquisite lounging, foolish mortal, and mourn that you will never lounge with such cosmopolitan savoir faire." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 2cc9725 | An elderly diner from a neighboring table had been dying for an excuse to stare at the exotic woman with rubies around her neck, and now Laksha had provided her one by laughing so loudly. She noticed the woman's stare and waggled her finger between us and explained, "We were just talking about goatfucking." The woman's eyes bulged in shock--and so did those of her dinner companions--but rather than scold Laksha for being so rude, they hasti.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| b76d344 | Bitch," he growls, immediately grasping for the world that most men do when they encounter a woman they can't control." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| f8fa917 | I lost somebody I loved," she whispered. "I know that doesn't make me special. Happens to everyone. She made me feel special, though, more than anyone else I'd met in five hundred years." She wiped at the tear on her cheek. "I don't know if we would have made it last forever, but damn if we weren't going to try." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| e94edc6 | Americans assert their own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient facts as mere opinions.> | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 54aab6a | Icy glares from vampires are far icier than icy glares from people. And when the vampire giving you an icy glare is originally from Iceland, you are confronted with the archetypal origin of the term, and you shouldn't be surprised if your core body temperature drops a few degrees. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a4202c8 | I was haunted by the ghosts of those who had trespassed against me; | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 19b707a | archdruid used to say. "Get out of the way, get underneath some shelter, or give it some reason to change its mind about falling on you." Then he threw a pissed-off rooster at me. I had" -- | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 6bea95b | Heh! Fuck yew," I said." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 0d7ae43 | How can one freeze and put their hands above their head at the same time? Do they teach cops to shout contradictory instructions at suspects at the academy for some sinister purpose? If I obeyed one cop, did the other cop get to shoot me for resisting arrest? | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a2b659b | Everybody's makin' too much money off oil and coal and buyin' congressmen with it to make sure it stays that way. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 40f1a1d | You must be thinking of stories from other cultures. Irish women tend to kick ass and do whatever they want. For exhibits A, B, and C, I give you the Morrigan, Brighid, and Flidais. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 9b1317f | Excellent plan. Atticus out. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 657245a | I dispelled my invisibility for a few seconds in his full view, a finger resting provocatively on my lower lip, giving him a come-hither look under a streetlight. His jaw and the bottle of Zubrowka dropped at the same time. It shattered, drawing his eyes to the sidewalk, and I took the opportunity afforded by his distraction to disappear again. "That was mean," Oberon said, watching the man look wildly around for me and pawing at his eyes a.. | philosophy granuaile hunted kevin-hearne oberon | Kevin Hearne | |
| 368834e | Some while later Mekera found me, her face shining with joy. "Fiyori gave me her phone number! You know what this means?" "She likes you." "No! I mean yes, but it means I need to get a phone!" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a95e9e1 | landed on my chest and stuck its proboscis | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 5baecc6 | For all that we may sometimes despise our fellows and be driven to rages and petty revenges, I think we are even darker creatures when we are alone. We can learn to fear our own thoughts more than the lash of the whip or the slap in the face. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| eb89620 | That light source is lava. A bit more dangerous than those fancy twisty light bulbs ye see these days | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 73c0da3 | You have some kind of food in a safe? Is that, uh... safe? Yes. You may relax and depend on my methods of preservation. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4f536fc | For all its manifold beauties, the world is never so fine once someone you love leaves it; instead, there is only the bleak prospect of loneliness and might-have-beens. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7cae82c | I come to dungeon for good time--which maybe is problem, I admit--but I get bad time instead. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c370859 | I dislike guilt," the Morrigan said. "It is regret and recrimination and despair over that which cannot be changed. It is like eating ashes for breakfast. It is the whip that clerics use on the laity, making the sheep slaves to whatever moral code the shepherds espouse. It is a catalyst for suicide and untold other acts of selfishness and stupidity. I cannot think of a more poisonous emotion." "I don't like it either," I admitted. "So why d.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| cdc2b9b | Because there's a narcissist with a bunch of cronies who wants to burn down the whole world--your piece of it included--for no other reason than to stoke his own ego and profit besides." "So, kinda like an American president, then." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| f6dd7ca | My God, Atticus, you look like you had an orgy with egg yolks and orange juice." "We might need a loofah," I admitted. "Dare I ask what happened?" "An Olympian exploded on us and it was yucky." | Kevin Hearne |