Julie Templin

“Thirty-five is the age for a woman, in my opinion. Oh—to stay thirty-five forever.”
― Bette Davis, The Lonely Life: An Autobiography

“When you do something stupid and die, it’s pathetic,” I said. “When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Bob wasn’t precisely a friend to me but…I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“The net result of it was that some streets were bright with the headlights of military trucks and patrolled by National Guardsmen, and some of them were as black and empty as a crooked politician’s heart.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat