02c. 1971 ADWhy?” I asked him tiredly. “What would it have changed? What could you possibly have said that would have made a difference?”“That I was your brother, Harry,” he said. “That I loved you. That I knew a few things about denying the dark parts of your nature. And that we would get through it.” He put his elblows on his knees and rested his forehead on his hands. “That we’d figure it out. That you weren’t alone.” Stab.Twist.He was right. It was just that simple.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
03c. 1971 ADOh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
05c. 1971 ADIt must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .Jim Butcher / quote ↗
06c. 1971 ADThere are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrugged. 'It's worthwhile to me.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
07c. 1971 ADThere should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
08c. 1971 ADJust remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore."Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
09c. 1971 ADMaybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.” “Well,” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
10c. 1971 ADYou don't have to make fun of it.""Actually I do," I said. "I make fun of almost everything.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
11c. 1971 ADThat's Doctor Smart-ass. I didn't spend eight years in insult college to be called Mister.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
12c. 1971 ADWith a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
13c. 1971 ADYes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan far below. Yes, I was using a legendary and enchanted means of travel to transcend the border between one dimension and the next, and on my way to an epic struggle between ancient and elemental forces.But all i could think to say, between panting breaths, was, "Yeah. Sure. They couldn't possibly have made this an escalator.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
14c. 1971 ADIsana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court.""And why is that?""Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
15c. 1971 ADNay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
16c. 1971 ADI ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
17c. 1971 ADThe only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
19c. 1971 ADI know you haven't burned down any buildings in a while," she said, "but if you start feeling the need...Jim Butcher / quote ↗
20c. 1971 ADFire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
21c. 1971 ADThe last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
22c. 1971 ADIf I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
23c. 1971 ADBeing called "dangerous" by a cat could mean a great many things, but it was generally delivered as something of a compliment.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
24c. 1971 ADIt was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that it was perfectly acceptable to teach kits to accept food from their hands as a matter of course, rather than teaching them the importance of hunting skill and self-reliance.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
