#butcher

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

— Maximilien Robespierre

#attempts #butchers #crime #innocence #might

EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED - THEY FOUND THE BODY ↗

— Jim Butcher

#easter #harry-dresden #jim-butcher #harry-dresden

Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed? ↗

— Jim Butcher

#quote #dresden-files

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#backward #butcher #holler #i #i think

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#ambiguity #appalling #book #boy #butcher

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#after #became #butcher #children #doubled

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#always #anyone #anything #butcher #common

In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#count-non #life

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#calves #choose #only #own #stupidest

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