“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
“Yet slavery isn’t the real cause of the trouble between the regions. It is economics. The South sells its cotton and sugar to England and Europe, and buys manufactured goods from those places instead of from the industrial North. The South has decided it has no need for the rest of the United States of America. Despite Mr. Lincoln’s speeches against slavery, that is the sore that festers.”
― Noah Gordon, quote from Shaman
“Not even much survives as memory. Many of the most notable names of the summer—Richard Byrd, Sacco and Vanzetti, Gene Tunney, even Charles Lindbergh—are rarely encountered now, and most of the others are never heard at all. So it is perhaps worth pausing for a moment to remember just some of the things that happened that summer: Babe Ruth hit sixty home runs. The Federal Reserve made the mistake that precipitated the stock market crash. Al Capone enjoyed his last summer of eminence. The Jazz Singer was filmed. Television was created. Radio came of age. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed. President Coolidge chose not to run. Work began on Mount Rushmore. The Mississippi flooded as it never had before. A madman in Michigan blew up a school and killed forty-four people in the worst slaughter of children in American history. Henry Ford stopped making the Model T and promised to stop insulting Jews. And a kid from Minnesota flew across an ocean and captivated the planet in a way it had never been captivated before. Whatever else it was, it was one hell of a summer.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from One Summer: America, 1927
“I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so?”
― Albert Camus, quote from The Outsider
“Henry finishes his fifth brandy. “It was all right, but I prefer The Little Mermaid.”
Olivia raises a black brow. “I thought ‘cocks’ didn’t like princess cartoons?”
“Have you seen Ariel?” Henry asks. “My cock likes her a whole bunch.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Royally Screwed
“Jordan grimaced and said, “They’re kind of… booby-trapped.” “Booby-trapped,” she deadpanned. He looked at her innocently and shrugged as if to say it wasn’t his fault. “You know what?” Alex muttered. “I don’t even want to know how you know that.”
― Lynette Noni, quote from Akarnae
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