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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0a5a20e | The fastest way for us to help make him into a monster is to look at him like he is one. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 90755ae | He bared his teeth, white against his dark skin. "How long have you been a Wiccan?" "A what?" "A pagan. A witch." "I'm not a witch," I said, glancing out the door. "I'm a wizard." Sanya frowned. "What is the difference?" "Wizard has a Z." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4b2ce18 | Cujo growled at me in the rearview mirror again, and I beamed at him. Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f2fe068 | wildcat. I found him in a Dumpster one day when he was a kitten and he promptly adopted me. Despite my struggles, Mister had been an understanding soul, and I eventually came to realize that I was a part of his little family, and by his gracious consent was allowed to remain in his apartment. Cats. Go figure. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 72ad8db | There was little sense in attempting anything like subtlety, so I donned my bottle green spectacles, focused my supernatural senses, and began a slow survey of the entire place. The energy known as magic exists on a broad spectrum, much like light. Just as light can be split into its colors by a sufficient prism, magical energy can be more clearly distinguished by using the proper tools. The spectacles gave me a chance to view the energy sw.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 53a6f66 | They say that you're the real thing, Mister Dresden. A real magus." "They also say I'm nutty as a fruitcake." "I choose which 'they' I listen to very carefully," | Jim Butcher | ||
| bf34071 | I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 174d962 | Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments. | Andrew Ferguson | ||
| e2bdcab | Would it be riding the wave, or stepping over a puddle? | Andrew Fox (author) | ||
| 38cb1b6 | And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realize that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last--and yet will remain with you for life. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9b2e7ff | When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic." | heroic stupid | Jim Butcher | |
| 7dcc8ac | The evening had obviously been moving along entirely too smoothly, I thought. Something had gone wrong. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a5a6d38 | Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c27e20b | life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick of things, sometimes it's hard for us to tell. You didn't do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn't make it right--but it doesn't make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9b9839b | People who know diddly about wizards don't like to give us their names. They're convinced that if they give a wizard their name from their own lips it could be used against them. To be fair, they're right. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3b5f61b | But, as it turned out, hell got up awfully early in the morning. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 275fc1a | I would beat you to crap if you didn't already look like it, | Jim Butcher | ||
| eb54c84 | Crap," I said. I'm quite eloquent in times of crisis" | Jim Butcher | ||
| d88dc88 | Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That's why black magic is so easy--it comes from lust, from fear and anger, from things that are easy to feed and make grow. The sort I do is harder. It comes from something deeper than that, a truer and purer source--harder to tap, harder to keep, but ultimately more elegant, more powerful. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of wh.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 981b431 | She was wearing jeans, a black tank top, and a loose black man's shirt | Jim Butcher | ||
| efdbc3d | I roared at him. "Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!" | Jim Butcher | ||
| e7272f7 | you have to smile at idiots and children. | Jim Butcher | ||
| afaf622 | I hate it when a plan falls apart. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8a4e6e9 | I guess being dead gives you a whole different perspective on life. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7e2cbb8 | I shall I not equivocate, there is a meeting of men and women and there is a meeting only for women. | Anne Hutchinson | ||
| 52f64a5 | Nearly twenty years before, Hudson Taylor had written in an editorial: "All God's giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them." As he looked at himself, Hudson Taylor saw nothing but weakness; but as generations of Christians have studied Taylor's life, they have become acquainted with a man who dared to believe the Word of God and, by faith, carried the gospel to inland China--and sa.. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 65a8dea | One of the key words in this letter is comfort or encouragement. The Greek word means "called to one's side to help." The verb is used eighteen times in this letter, and the noun eleven times. In spite of all the trials he experienced, Paul was able (by the grace of God) to write a letter saturated with encouragement." | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| a5388c5 | Not at all," persisted Chalmers, unaware that Shea was trying to shush him. "The people of the country have agreed to call magic 'white' when practised for lawful ends by duly authorized agents of the governing authority, and 'black' when practised by unauthorized persons for criminal ends. That is not to say that the principles of the science -- or art -- are not the same in either event. You should confine such terms as 'black' and 'white.. | evil good-and-evil magic spells white | L. Sprague de Camp | |
| e806d71 | Numedidean | L. Sprague de Camp | ||
| 37dc8a1 | One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering. | Anne Louise Germaine de Staël | ||
| 3aefe0d | As he passed through the winding corridors and the subterranean apartments, Tarzan saw nothing of the hyenas. "They will return," he said to himself. In the crater between the towering walls Bukawai, cold with terror, trembled, trembled as with ague. "They will return!" he cried, his voice rising to a fright-filled shriek. And they did." | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 7ebfec9 | Formerly they had dwelt in the Belgian Congo until the cruelties of their heartless oppressors had driven them to seek the safety of unexplored solitudes beyond the boundaries of Leopold's domain. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| c3b1f5a | I know that the average human mind will not believe what it cannot grasp, and so I do not purpose being pilloried by the public, the pulpit, and the press, and held up as a colossal liar when I am but telling the simple truths which some day science will substantiate. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 94ae075 | It is probable, however, that to this fact I owe my life and the remarkable experiences and adventures which befell me during the following ten years. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| e14e4c8 | Always, everywhere, man is man, nor has he altered greatly beneath his veneer since he scurried into a hole between two rocks to escape the tyrannosaurus six million years ago. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| b6302bf | nothing is too good for the object of their adoration as long as he maintains his position by repeated examples of his skill, strength, and courage. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| be14176 | guided entirely by telepathic means. This power is wonderfully developed in all Martians, and accounts largely for the simplicity of their language and the relatively few spoken words exchanged even in long conversations. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 6b7ea2c | Tarzan | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| bb0b28d | Likewise, under Sola's tutelage, I developed my telepathic powers so that I shortly could sense practically everything that went on around me. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 80a7cac | Y la sonrisa es la base de la belleza. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 2e186b7 | And the man rose and put a foot upon it and, raising his face to the heavens, voiced a horrid cry --the victory cry of the bull ape. Corrie was suddenly terrified of this man who had always seemed so civilized and cultured. Even the men were shocked. Suddenly recognition lighted the eyes of Jerry Lucas. "John Clayton," he said, "Lord Greystoke-- Tarzan of the Apes!" Shrimp's jaw dropped. "Is dat Johnny Weissmuller?" he demanded." | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 1690d25 | As he emerged again and crossed through the dining-room he saw that Murray had regained consciousness and was sitting at a table wiping the blood from his face with a wet napkin. As Murray's eyes fell upon his late antagonist he half rose from his chair and shook his fist at Jimmy. "I'll get you for this, young feller!" he yelled. "I'll get you yet, and don't you forget it." "You just had me," Jimmy called back; "but it didn't seem to make .. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 4fb906c | But it was ever thus. That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be--our | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| b00e628 | Are you sure," he asked the clerk, "that my replies haven't been sidetracked somewhere? I have seen people taking letters away from here all day, and that bird there just walked off with a fistful." The clerk grinned. "What you advertising for?" he asked. "A position," replied Jimmy. "That's the answer," explained the clerk. "That fellow there was advertising for help." | Edgar Rice Burroughs |