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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 56b726c | Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter." | foot-in-mouth silence | Jim Butcher | |
| 1a9a284 | what good is magic if it cannot be used to make a delicious cup of a fine beverage? | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3caabbe | What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 07614f4 | Now hear me, brother," I said gently. "Cease your attempts to harm my humans. Depart this city. Do not come back." "Or else?" he asked. "There is nothing else," I replied calmly. "You will do these things. The only question is whether you will do them of your own will or if I must teach you how." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f2a7fd5 | I drew my pentacle into my fist, raised it like every vampire slayer you ever saw does it, and said, "Jesus Christ, lady. I just came here to talk." | Jim Butcher | ||
| cb3ad70 | At five feet and small change, a hundred and not much, she didn't exactly look like a tough Chicago cop who could face down monsters and maniacs with equal nerve. Chicks like that aren't supposed to be blond or have a cute nose. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 513ad16 | Thank me when I save your life." "You've done that already," I said. "Back in the museum." "So we're even?" "Once you've made that swap, you don't keep counting, man," I said. "Drive safe." | Jim Butcher | ||
| b30ed93 | Translation," I said. "We got around her fair and square. She won't like it, but she'll accept it." "Oh yeah," Thomas muttered under his breath. "This isn't coming back to bite anyone in the ass later." -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| 296981b | It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 14445f8 | It was the same thing, resting in my grave. Peace. I wasn't going anywhere and it made me happy. If only I'd brought a book, my day would have been perfect. | Jim Butcher | ||
| fc5357e | Bloody constraint," I told him. "For should you try to hide the girl from me, even in your heart, there shall I rake for her." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4418102 | You're such a pompous, arrogant, pretentious, chauvinistic, hopelessly old-fashioned, stupidly pigheaded | Jim Butcher | ||
| ef852bd | Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 062557d | She could be a pain in the ass, but she was one gutsy chick. Her kids were lucky to have a mother like her. A lot of moms would say that they would die for their children. Charity had placed herself squarely in harm's way to do exactly that. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c3bbeed | My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 885bf82 | Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding! | Jim Butcher | ||
| 339dbd6 | A little kung fu, a little John Wayne, and a few casual threats. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6905f61 | I will not live in a realm where calculations of power supersede justice and law - regardless of how inconvenient that may be to the Crown. | law power | Jim Butcher | |
| c05e649 | Moonrise," I told him, then turned on my heel and walked quickly from the alley, although my sock feet on the gravel, combined with my limp, probably spoiled the badass image." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 752a1da | Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do, | Jim Butcher | ||
| ddeb4ea | Here's something else I bet you didn't know about Tyrannosaurs: they don't corner well | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9bccad8 | I had never much believed in God. Well, that's not quite true. I believed that there was a God, or something close enough to it to warrant the name--if there were demons, there had to be angels, right? If there was a Devil, somewhere, there had to be a God. But He and I had never really seen things in quite the same terms. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c6d0517 | You walk through shadows and one night you will slip and fall. And when you do, we will be there. We will be waiting to bring you down to us. You will be ours in the end. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9614fe7 | Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale," Sanya said. "That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to ove.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f506993 | Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c059b46 | Nobel prize for pornography. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 35a98fe | She was a complex woman," Anastasia said. "Brilliant, erratic, passionate, committed, idealistic, talented, charming, insulting, bold, incautious, arrogant--and short-sighted, yes." -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| a111895 | If I was writing during that window, then I imagine that the story was likely late as well and absolutely needed to be finished, so once again I met with inspiration at the corner of Late and Hurry up. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b11ced4 | The occult community he had in mind was the usual New Age, crystal-gazing, tarot-turning, palm-reading crowd you see in any large city. Most of them were harmless, and many had at least a little ability at magic. Add in a dash of feng-shui artists, season liberally with Wiccans of a variety of flavors and sincerities, blend in a few modestly gifted practitioners who liked mixing religion with their magic, some followers of voodoo, a few San.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 60c10aa | The clock has superpowers. It always seems to move too slowly. Look up at it and it will tell you the time. Look up an hour and a half later, and it will tell you two minutes have gone by. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 632e3ab | Everyone begs everyone's pardon, but I've never seen a pardon. Is it near the spleen?" Bridget blinked, then gave her head a little shake to keep the odd thought from crawling into her ear." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1c5e417 | I drove my right fist into its stupid, creepy face. Man, the yahoos I scrap with never seem to anticipate that tactic. They all assume that what with me being a wizard and all, I'm going to stand back and chuck Magic Missiles at them or something, then scream and run away the second they get close enough to let me see the whites of their eyes. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9f41d7b | The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. | Jim Butcher | ||
| fba1b79 | I have fought long and hard against horrors even you would respect. I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9650472 | Wait," Connie said again. "A . . . what? Am I going to sparkle or something?" "God, no," said Irwin and I together." | irwin-bigfoot short-stories side-jobs | Jim Butcher | |
| 9f99965 | This block had seen the apocalypse come, grunted, and said, "Meh." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7ce7dbd | There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares. It seemed that, lately, I had barely been touched at all. | Jim Butcher | ||
| bba75b9 | I closed the door behind me, while life went on. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 621dff4 | It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it. | morality virtue | Jim Butcher | |
| 93d05a2 | Olympian, I should think, from the colors and the fur trim of his coat," Master Ferus put in. "Olympian and, it would seem, possessed of a fury. Which is funny, if you know enough history." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2cd19c2 | Pain isn't a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain--physical, emotional, and otherwise--is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there to tell us when we've done something badly--it's a teache.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d2df904 | his scent like leather and fresh wind, | Jim Butcher | ||
| aa49567 | I'll give the rat his due--he's got balls that drag the ground when he walks. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cdcbe20 | It isn't that simple, Harry. No matter where you go, there you are." "Look, I've had a long night." "I know," my double said. "Believe me, I know. That's why it's important to get some of this out now, before it settles in. Before you blow a gasket on your sanity, man." "I've not worried about that," I lied. "I'm as solid as a brick wall." My double snorted. "If you weren't getting pretty close to crazy, would you be talking to yourself rig.. | Jim Butcher |