“This is what it look like when it WORKS?”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“Give it to 'em!"
Take 'em down!"
First Aleran!"
Kick their furry--"
Assault formation!”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If so, then face them and overcome them. Until then, pay them no mind. You have enough to think on.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“Senator. If you call my friend a liar one more time, I will take it badly."
"Excuse me?" Arnos said, his eyebrows rising up.
"I suggest you find an alternate shortsighted, egomaniacally ridiculous reason to blatantly, recklessly ignore an obvious threat to the Realm simply because you don't wish it to exist. If you cannot restrain yourself from base slander, I will be pleased to meet you in juris macto and personally rip your forked tongue from your head.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“Wars and plans can’t coexist, sir. One of them kills the other.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“You can tell a great deal about a person by looking at the people who share his life.” Isana”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“It’s easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“Bosun!” “Aye, skipper?” “Reinforce the mainmast, hang out all the laundry, and warn the witchmen! Let’s make the old bitch fly!”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
“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.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Cursor's Fury
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“Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing was not fast enough, so we rolled merrily along on long metal tracks. Long metal tracks were not fast enough, so we drove. Driving was not fast enough, so we flew.
Flying isn't fast enough for us. We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind.”
― Margaret Atwood, quote from The Tent
“Sometimes when we are at our lowest points, we make the greatest discoveries.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, quote from You Have to Stop This
“No one can see your life the way you see it.”
― quote from Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
“Yo la quiero... Hace mucho que lo sabe. No juegue el juego cruel de fingir que no entiende... y no tema nada.”
― Émile Zola, quote from The Ladies' Paradise
“… I agree with two things: the steppe is wide—even though I’ve never been there, and the mountains, fuck, yes, the mountains are a thing for themselves. They eat you up, swallow you whole, digest and churn around until their loneliness spits you back out again and you think that nothing else matters. Just them, and that tiny handful of life that’s your own. Fucking insignificant. Nothing, no one, barely remembered, except perhaps for a moment of recognition in a goddamned teahouse.” He shut up, suddenly, had said too much.
Vadim flashed a smile. “You’re my favourite enemy, too. Fucking messy Brit.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, quote from Special Forces - Soldiers
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