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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 86b5bcf | They were huge, six feet long not including the tail, and as high as my belly at their shoulders. Their entirely human eyes shone, as did their bared fangs. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b0057f7 | You are the only man I ever met," Tera growled, "who would smash the paws that are trying to free you from certain death." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4f8c8db | You can't," Grimm said simply. "You've seen the mistmaw. They haven't." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 02d81dc | There is but one reality, that is true -- but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster. | multiple-realities perception perception-of-reality reality | Jim Butcher | |
| 596be29 | It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that it was perfectly acceptable to teach kits to accept food from their hands as a matter of course, rather than teaching them the importance of hunting skill and self-reliance. | humans-and-animals self-reliance tamingmusicians | Jim Butcher | |
| 80c88bb | Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not. | foolishness humans-and-animals wisdom | Jim Butcher | |
| 89e64f9 | Handy, humans, Rowl thought. Clumsy, slow, and not always terribly bright, but they were very strong, through sheer, inarguable mass. He now saw his father's wisdom in desiring to keep a few of them around the home tunnels. They could manage annoying problems that might prove awkward and time-consuming for cats. | humans-and-animals mass strength | Jim Butcher | |
| b631206 | The very best wizards don't need much more than chalk, table salt, and a wooden spoon to pull off some remarkable stuff. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f047b48 | So I, uh, sort of threw myself out of the passenger seat of a moving car. Don't look at me like that. I'm telling you, it made sense at the time. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ba668f5 | Freaking manipulative faeries," I" | Jim Butcher | ||
| d92857f | Matson threw up his skinny arms to protect himself as something huge and quick shoved its way between the bars, like a big dog going through a rotten picket fence, and engulfed him. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 96ec031 | There was a horrible, wrenching sound, a screech of protesting metal, and one of the screams peaked at a shivering, violent point--then dissolved into a strangled mishmash of sounds, of tearing and snapping and popping, of gurgling and thudding. And when they were finished, something, something big, with a cavernous, resonating chest, snarled from not ten feet beyond the security door. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3a2cede | The belts do more than make you fuzzy, Denton. They change the way you think. The way you act. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 79ea348 | Ah, yes. 'And I'll huff. And I'll puff. And I'll blow your house down.' Good-bye, wizard." Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells." | Jim Butcher | ||
| cd41297 | Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench. | humor women | Jim Butcher | |
| e1a4a0b | Oh, good grief. The Mickey Mouse Club of werewolves wanted to throw in on my side. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 87d05ec | Please, help me. Young werewolves in love. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0479e06 | And then there she was, a girl of elegant height, perhaps eighteen or nineteen years of age--gawky and coltish, all long legs and arms, but with the promise of stunning beauty to add graceful curves to the lean lines of her body. She was dressed in a pair of my blue jeans, cut off at the tops of her muscled thighs, and my own T-shirt, tied off over her abdomen. A pentacle amulet, identical to my own, if less battered, lay over her heart, be.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7ee1725 | Patiently, more gentle than rain, she made me clean, while I drifted, my eyes closed. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7a13f00 | Kestus idly added theoretical torture to the theoretical murder, because done right, it might be funny. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0d00539 | Crowdsourcing works on the basis that 'the wisdom of the crowd' is greater than that of an individual, even if that individual is an expert - an idea James Surowiecki devoted a whole book to. Surowiecki's opening example in The Wisdom of Crowds dates back to 1906, when the crowd at a county fair were asked to guess individually the weight of a butchered ox. The average guess was much closer than that of cattle experts. | Jim Boulton | ||
| cd407b0 | Sit down," she said," | Jim Butcher | ||
| 47dc5be | Back-to-back", Bayard replied, and Grimm felt the sudden, wiry pressure of the other man's shoulders pressed against the middle of his back. "I should be friends with taller people," Grimm panted. "Bite your tongue, old boy, or I'll hack apart your ankles." | friends short-people | Jim Butcher | |
| 3ee7ee7 | Because I know my daughter," she said. "And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure that she pursues any given course of action is for me to forbid her to do so." | stubbornness | Jim Butcher | |
| 8fff176 | Being called "dangerous" by a cat could mean a great many things, but it was generally delivered as something of a compliment." | dangerous | Jim Butcher | |
| 530e693 | Crows take you Gaius Sextus. Even when you make a request you leave me no choices." "They do seem to have grown a bit sparse, these past few years," he agreed quietly." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 823c474 | 'Just say no' isn't enough unless there is something to say 'yes' to." | Andrew Cuomo | ||
| dcf82bd | My brother Chris, is positive for coronavirus | Andrew Cuomo | ||
| 8bd15e4 | a captain should know the details of every position in his ship's company by working them with his own hands, stem to stern. It's the only way to be sure you know what each man needs from his captain in order to be able to perform his duty. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3ac1e83 | Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute his mother to pirates. | mothers prostitutes | Jim Butcher | |
| ddbea6b | Steady as she goes, Mister Kettle," the grim gaptain said, his voice stern." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4765c88 | Esmerelda's blue and green eyes could have made Stevie remember being hired by Mister Snuffleupagus, if that was what she wanted. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 01ec916 | Trials and half a dozen smaller | Jim Butcher | ||
| 663c142 | A giant caterpillar, its segmented body made of severed human heads, their faces screaming, their tongues functioning as legs, rippled up a wall and began tearing out chunks of concrete where a ledge had been worn, destroying another shrine. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2e494fa | There are thousands of names for them, in every culture--mana, psychic energy, totem, juju, chi, bioethereal power, the Force, the soul. It's an incredibly complex system of interweaving energy that influences good old Mother Earth around us, but it all boils down to a fairly simple concept: Shit happens. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 45817ee | Hebbity bedda," I said, by way of attempting a greeting. My mouth had gone rather numb, and my tongue felt like a lead weight. "Jussa hangonna sayke hee." Fix jumped up and down, pointing at me, his voice shrill. "He's casting on us!" | Jim Butcher | ||
| aba5862 | What is going to happen to the Aurorans?" "They are prisoners of war," Albion said. "I should imagine they will be set to work at the base of the Spire." Grimm tightened his jaw. "No, sir." "No?" "No, sir," Grimm said. "I've seen that place. You might as well tie a noose around their necks and stand them on blocks of ice, if you want them to die a slow death. It will be cleaner." "I'm not sure why this concerns you, Captain," Albion said. ".. | honor pows prisoners surrender | Jim Butcher | |
| 378e517 | Her fate was, she realized, entirely in the hands of another person. Captain | Jim Butcher | ||
| f04ecee | Ah!" Journeyman cackled... "Finally! Carefully now, man. If you crack one of my new crystals, I'll hoist you up on a spike!" Grimm cleared his throat calmly. Journeyman squinted over his shoulder. "Ah," he said. "That is, I will report you to... to... the proper person in the chain of command, who will make decisions about discipline that are not mine to make." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1720127 | I should far rather be drunk than eaten, Miss Lancaster," Ferus said in a serious tone. "As should we all. Very well, that's settled." -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| d582678 | guru in the Ukraine, | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9fdfc69 | The plan is insane," Ehren said. "You are insane." He looked around the inside of the tent. "I'll need some pants." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5e14941 | There is more to the world than what a review board publishes about an officer or aeronaut, Miss Lancaster. Guard. Your. Tongue. | Jim Butcher | ||
| bfa0cf0 | Money is a madness, a delusion-illusion. It's not made of metal, really. It's made of time. How much is one's time worth? If one can convince enough people that one's time is an invaluable resource, then one has lots and lots of money. That's why one can spend time--only one can never get a refund." "I" | Jim Butcher |