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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4637b07 | In for a sheep, in for a gargant. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ab50ac6 | It is how decent, civilized people behave, Captain Ransom. Though I suppose that to someone of your level of moral fortitude, it must seem remarkable. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 116e720 | Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion. | motion | Jim Butcher | |
| bfa63cd | By the time I got home, it was after two o'clock in the morning. The | Jim Butcher | ||
| 39c9d67 | after a pointless delay for the humans to collect all their toys and keepsakes, he was able to take his rightful place in Littlemouse's arms and heard them all in the proper direction. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1640e4d | But even with centuries of experience, I doubted any of them had ever been hit with a water balloon. Or with a holy-water balloon, either. I kept three of them in the box in my car, in easy reach. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6eb6793 | Littlemouse was in danger, doubtless a prisoner, and the humans could not be trusted to handle her rescue with appropriate violence. They might be willing to leave someone alive, and Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2feae98 | I could give you peace. Imagine closing your eyes with no worries, no pain, no fears, no regrets, no appetites, and no guilt. Only quiet and darkness and stillness and my flesh against yours. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f23fee2 | Gwen frowned, "I assure you, sir, it is quite cool." "It isn't," Ferus replied. "what you feel is the etheric energy that courses through the crystal. But your sensation of it is . . . something your mind was not sure what to do with, when you first encountered it. A wonderful place the mind, but if it has any kind of disappointing failure it's that it always attempts to put new things into the context of things which are familiar to it. So.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c040a6f | 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. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 23391bf | that underlay the city of Chicago. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 72b9293 | The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," he said, and turned for the door." | Jim Butcher | ||
| e4fa0bd | Yes," Aquitaine said quietly. "The Legions will pay a terrible price so that the residents of Riva can flee. But if they do not, the city will fall into chaos, and the civilians will die." He shook his head. "This way, perhaps half of the legionares will survive the retreat. Even odds. If we are forced to defend the city to our last man, they will all die, Countess. For nothing. And they know it." He nodded. "They'll fight." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 057bf23 | Fear is really quite tedious. She wanted to be rid of it as soon as possible. | fear | Jim Butcher | |
| 6c30979 | He released the guy, who charged me instantly. One punch for every dog to have ever been thrown overboard to the sharks. One punch for every shark who'd been butchered alive. One punch didn't settle the score. But it sure as hell felt good. I hit him just under his right eye, so hard that I heard his cheekbone shatter. | J.R. Rain | ||
| dd642c1 | said. Michael | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2f8aff2 | Bosun!" "Aye, skipper?" "Reinforce the mainmast, hang out all the laundry, and warn the witchmen! Let's make the old bitch fly!" -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| 86e2498 | Hundreds of millions of man-hours of work and struggle and research, blood, sweat, tears, and lives have gone into the history of air travel, and it has totally revolutionized the face of our planet and societies. But get on any flight in the country, and I absolutely promise you that you will find someone who, in the face of all that incredible achievement, will be willing to complain about the drinks. The drinks, people. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1217928 | Birthdays are about families. Whether they're a biological family or one that's come together by choice, it's your family who gathers to celebrate the anniversary of *you*. | jim-butcher many-bloody-returns | Jim Butcher | |
| b14f44b | The door is ajar," the dashboard said. "It won't shut up," I explained to him. "It gets sort of Zen after a while," Butters said brightly. "Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 245a322 | It is that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to believe that they can win a war, that war is lost. | morale war | Jim Butcher | |
| e207ea3 | When the Almighty speaks to men, He always does it in voices they can understand, | Jim Butcher | ||
| 685db84 | I think men who lust for power are capable of almost anything. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 320f7a5 | I blinked and squinted against the light. I recognized the voice now. "Hi, Murphy. This is going to be one of those conversations, isn't it?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| adcd235 | I limped over to Luccio and nodded at the tables Mac had set up. "I hope there's room enough. When are the other Wardens arriving?" Luccio fixed me with a quiet, weary gaze. Then she drew her hands from beneath her cloak and held out a folded bundle wrapped in brown paper, offering it to me. "Take it." I took the bundle and unwrapped it. It was a folded grey cloak. "Put it on," said Luccio in her quiet, steady voice. "And then every availab.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 888bcb4 | You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then move on to the next. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8e639d5 | Ya te lo dije>> preventivos --senale--. Ahora si que lo he visto todo. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 88a3ab6 | Me and the Blue Beetle kick ass. In a four-cylinder kind of way, but it still gets kicked. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 88819d4 | Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine," Grimm said." | difficult impossible industry possible | Jim Butcher | |
| 55dee56 | My dear cousin has a very odd relationship with fear -- though mostly she's too busy to be bothered with it. | women-s-strength | Jim Butcher | |
| 72d044c | There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does. | courage rise-up | Jim Butcher | |
| 68ea82c | The desk sergeant wasn't the usual mustached old warhorse who I had run into before, but a greying matron with steely eyes who disapproved of me and my lifestyle in a single glance, | Jim Butcher | ||
| e87565c | I just wouldn't be safe from myself. I wouldn't be safe from the loathing I would feel, using a tool made of life's essence, its energy, to bring an end to life. Magic was more than just an energy source, like electricity or petroleum. It was power, true, but it was a lot of other things as well. It was all that was deepest and most powerful in nature, in the human heart and soul. The ways in which I applied it were crude and clumsy in comp.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| aa9b611 | 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. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 71e3993 | Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds." "Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when you swear." "You're right. Sorry. Holy shit," I breathed, "heckhounds." | expletives | Jim Butcher | |
| 71b912f | This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cffc146 | Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. | life pain wisdom | Jim Butcher | |
| 18c0682 | There are people who love you, Faith. Or who one day will. Even if you can't see them beside you, right here, right now, they're out there. But if you let the dark get into your eyes, you might never find them. So it's best to keep a little light with you, along the way. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 20c14e3 | He grunted. "You're trivializing what getting out for a bit means to me, Harry. You're insulting my masculinity." "Bob," I said, "you're a skull. You don't have any masculinity to insult." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 64f74db | Those who have such a family seldom realize how rare and precious it is. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f531a0a | Didn't you read the owner's manual?" " ? See here, missy. I've been an etheric engineer since before you were born. I think I know how to handle a lift crystal." "Evidently you aren't bright enough to do so, if you cannot read. We provide those manuals and specifications and procedures for a reason, you know." | manuals reading | Jim Butcher | |
| f9c05f3 | You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else. | creativity ingenuity | Jim Butcher | |
| 36ca362 | If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would speak even more loudly about clearly of her life. | character death enemies foes friends honor honour life | Jim Butcher | |
| 573ae44 | Not like those Dungeons and Dragons games. The real thing. He bought some of those tarot cards." She pronounced it like carrot. Amateurs." | Jim Butcher |