#butcher

Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop." I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead." The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, "I don't understand." I answered, "I don't either." A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood. Then she died. ↗

— Jim Butcher

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He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. ↗

— Jim Butcher

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Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

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Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. ↗

— John McCarthy

#book #butcher #critic #favorite #his

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. ↗