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Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them. By Jim Butcher
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I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please. By Jim Butcher
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From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. By Jim Butcher
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A lot can change in a year. By Jim Butcher
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If she were in a race for her life, that roar was the starter pistol. If God were the referee, He had just shouted Go. By Jim Butcher
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I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story. By Jim Butcher
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It - I was pretty much equipped, by experience and inclination, for mayhem. By Jim Butcher
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Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas. By Jim Butcher
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My doubts vanished as well. Doubt was for things that did not know their purpose, and I knew mine. By Jim Butcher
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Do you want to be my dad? By Jim Butcher
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I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket. By Jim Butcher
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...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine. By Jim Butcher
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I looked, noted details mechanically, and quietly shut the door on the part of my head that had started screaming the second I entered the room. By Jim Butcher
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That woman," Grimm said quietly, "drives me quite insane."Kettle grunted. "Why'd you marry her, then? By Jim Butcher
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Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you? By Jim Butcher
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I didn't follow her right away. She didn't look back. Stab. Twist. God, I love being a wizard. By Jim Butcher
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Everything's mine, Francis," she replied in a merry tone. "The only question is whether or not it knows it is yet. By Jim Butcher
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In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game. By Jim Butcher
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Patterns of cloth busier than the makeup girl at a Kiss concert By Jim Butcher
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If I stay, they'll kill me ... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally. By Jim Butcher
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[Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her. By Jim Butcher
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You okay?" Fix asked her. "Have to be," she said. By Jim Butcher
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I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you. By Jim Butcher
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Because it needs to be said," she murmured. "Because that's what happened. You deserve to know that. By Jim Butcher
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Where is your unit?" Murphy asked.I wiggled my eyebrows at her. "Right where it's always been, dollface. By Jim Butcher
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Wars and plans can't coexist, sir. One of them kills the other. By Jim Butcher
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Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground. By Jim Butcher
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Sometimes, when I get bored, I stop and think. By Jim Butcher
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That's the worst part about the walking dead ... the stains. By Jim Butcher
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It's easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back. By Jim Butcher
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Sometimes the things that are good for you, in the long run, hurt for a little while when you first get to them. By Jim Butcher
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Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better. By Jim Butcher
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Chew and smile? At the same time? Do I look like Jackie Chan? By Jim Butcher
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I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it ... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me. By Jim Butcher
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Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else. By Jim Butcher
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The belts do more than make you fuzzy, Denton. They change the way you think. The way you act. By Jim Butcher
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The hardest lesson a wizard has to learn is that even with so much power, there are some things you can't control. No matter how much you want to. By Jim Butcher
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That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate. By 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. By Jim Butcher
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She gave me a hard look. "No one likes a wiseass, Harry.""Are you kidding? As long as the wiseass is talking to someone else, people love 'em. By Jim Butcher
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Some men fall from grace. Some are pushed. By Jim Butcher
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I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. By Jim Butcher
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I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs. By Jim Butcher
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Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?""Because they're real.""How do you know?""The one I was holding crapped on my hand. By Jim Butcher
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He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, You are an untidy person. By Jim Butcher
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You want to play head games?" Molly snarled, her blue eyes blazing. "Let's go. By Jim Butcher
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Righteous. The real deal. He's honest, loyal, faithful. He lives his ideals. It gives him power. By Jim Butcher
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Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.' ... Harry Dresden By Jim Butcher
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We headed toward the creepy old slaughterhouse full of dangerous beings. Which ... pretty much tells you what kind of day I was having, right there. By Jim Butcher
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There are people out there who enjoy hurting and scaring others. They're going to keep doing it until you make them stop. By Jim Butcher
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Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. By Jim Butcher
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We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one. By Jim Butcher
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I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. By Jim Butcher
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So you really could die. Your godmother is right, you know. You are mad as a hatter. Nutty as a fruitcake." "Crazy like a fox," I said. By Jim Butcher
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They get caught up in right and wrong. Or right and left. But none of that stuff matters if people aren't free. Titania By Jim Butcher
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Harry Dresden - I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day. By Jim Butcher
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Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge. By Jim Butcher
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Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone. By Jim Butcher
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That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse. By Jim Butcher
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Make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is. By Jim Butcher
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Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night? By Jim Butcher
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But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea. By Jim Butcher
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It would, Grimm thought, be a horrible surprise to find out, mid-dive, that your ship had suddenly lost the ability to stop diving. By Jim Butcher
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Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself. By Jim Butcher
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My hair had grown out long and shaggy - not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way. By Jim Butcher
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Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate. By Jim Butcher
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If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you. By Jim Butcher
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Ah, yes. 'And I'll huff. And I'll puff. And I'll blow your house down.' Good-bye, wizard." Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells. By Jim Butcher
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Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells. By Jim Butcher
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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. By Jim Butcher
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I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel. By Jim Butcher
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Later. Bad habit to get into," Thomas said. "Life's too short. By Jim Butcher
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That's the difficult part of being mortal. Of having choice. Much is hidden from you. By Jim Butcher
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What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny? By Jim Butcher
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There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more ... secure. By Jim Butcher
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I can disintegrate a virgin's inhibitions at fifty paces, but I can't last two weeks at a job where I'm wearing a stupid hairnet and a paper hat. By Jim Butcher
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Lara [Raith] was gorgeous, brilliant, and sexier than a Swedish bikini team hiking up a mountain of money. By Jim Butcher
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Your ability to comprehend your environment is very strongly defined by your belief in a number of illusions. Time. Truth. Love. By Jim Butcher
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Wait. You work for me?""I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence. By Jim Butcher
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I sidestepped the vampire's rush, and drove my half of the former blasting rod down at its back, Buffy-like.Maybe it works better on television. By Jim Butcher
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Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine. By Jim Butcher
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I didn't shiver. I get muscle twitches sometimes. That's all. By Jim Butcher
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See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else. By Jim Butcher
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Speak only to those who listen. Anything else is a waste of breath. The answers to your questions were there, if you listened for them. By Jim Butcher
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But mostly, it ends badly when wizards try to stay too close to their kin. By Jim Butcher
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Mab narrowed her eyes, and a little smile graced her lips. "Impudent," she said. "It's sweet on you. By Jim Butcher
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Uh," I said, feeling somewhat off balance. "What do I think of gay guys?" "Yes." "Boink and let boink, more or less. By Jim Butcher
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I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone. By Jim Butcher
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the worst madmen don't seem odd at all," Grimm said. "They appear to be quite calm and rational, in fact. Until the screaming starts. By Jim Butcher
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Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut? By Jim Butcher
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You're a cop. I need a doughnut. By Jim Butcher
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Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning. By Jim Butcher
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If you weren't getting pretty close to crazy right now, would you be talking to yourself right now? By Jim Butcher
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The Blue Beetle was not a clown car," I said severely. "It was a machine of justice. By Jim Butcher
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Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep. By Jim Butcher
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Ease off the martyr throttle. By Jim Butcher
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Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly. By Jim Butcher
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She'd grown up in a strict household; she'd gone insane with freedom the minute she ran away and got out on her own. By Jim Butcher
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You need some time in a quiet place, boss. Unkink your brain's do. Mellow your vibe." "Thank you, Doctor Fraud, By Jim Butcher
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Whatever the reason, I'm happy to remember the time we had. By Jim Butcher
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She is not a cookie. Neither is she a biscuit, a PopTart, Sweet TART, apple tart, or any other kind of pastry. She is my apprentice. By Jim Butcher
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Love you. That should have been simple enough to say. But the words stuck hard in my throat. I'd never said them to anyone I didn't lose, By Jim Butcher
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My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do. By Jim Butcher
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It's a shadelight. Some of my men put one up whenever I lose a member of the crew. To light his shade's way back to his bunk, so he can rest. By Jim Butcher
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In Chicago, you can't swing a cat without hitting an Irish pub (and angering the cat), but McAnally's place stands out from the crowd. By Jim Butcher
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I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry. By Jim Butcher
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Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk. By Jim Butcher
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It's not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it. By Jim Butcher
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You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated. By Jim Butcher
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You're dead, son," Jack said. "Cheer is contraindicated. By Jim Butcher
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purple is my favorite color that isn't black, and By Jim Butcher
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I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family. By Jim Butcher
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Thwart: to prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. By Jim Butcher
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You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute. By Jim Butcher
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Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time. By Jim Butcher
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He was wrong, that doesn't make him a villian. That makes him an asshole. By Jim Butcher
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Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot. By Jim Butcher
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You don't have to make fun of it.""Actually I do," I said. "I make fun of almost everything. By Jim Butcher
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Hey, Bogart. You and the wonder twins back off or the bedsheet gets it.Harry Dresden, Death Masks. By Jim Butcher
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Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. By Jim Butcher
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Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint. By Jim Butcher
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Attention, shoppers! Discount specials on Harry Dresden's life. Slightly used, no refunds, limit one per customer. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. By Jim Butcher
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No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us. By Jim Butcher
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Let come the forces of night! We will stand!" "We will get the hell out of here is what we will do," I muttered. By Jim Butcher
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Come with me if you want to live. By Jim Butcher
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Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel. By Jim Butcher
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His mind is strange," came Varg's rumbling voice, "but capable. By Jim Butcher
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Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in. By Jim Butcher
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EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED - THEY FOUND THE BODY By Jim Butcher
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Knight takes Knight," I called into the cloudy night air. "Check. By Jim Butcher
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Why do you think I do it?" He shrugged. "All I can figure is that either you're nursing a deep and sadistic self-hatred or else you're insane. By Jim Butcher
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Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--"And?"And it makes you vulnerable. By Jim Butcher
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When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant? By Jim Butcher
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Never walk into a fight when the bad guys are the ones who set it up. By Jim Butcher
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Andi's eyes widened. "Bob. . .is it really him?""Yes, but he works for the bad guys now," Bob said. "It's probably safest to shoot him. By Jim Butcher
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His red hair was buzz cut, and he wore his ill-fitting suit like something that he planned to rip his way out of when he turned into the Hulk. By Jim Butcher
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Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle. By Jim Butcher
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You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat. By Jim Butcher
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Esmerelda's blue and green eyes could have made Stevie remember being hired by Mister Snuffleupagus, if that was what she wanted. By Jim Butcher
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Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells. By Jim Butcher
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Still going with the phallic foci, eh? Staff and rod?""They make me feel all manly. By Jim Butcher
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If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style. By Jim Butcher
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Intentions count for far less than the consequences of the actions born from them. By Jim Butcher
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But even with centuries of experience, I doubted any of them had ever been hit with a water balloon. Or with a holy-water balloon, either. By Jim Butcher
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I kicked the door open, staff held ready to fight, and shouted, And I'm all outta bubble gum! By Jim Butcher
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Heroines in dramas, Bridget felt, really ought to have more sense. By Jim Butcher
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Her fate was, she realized, entirely in the hands of another person. Captain By Jim Butcher
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If you go exploring, you might find something that could hurt you.""If one doesn't , one is not truly exploring By Jim Butcher
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Oh, good grief. The Mickey Mouse Club of werewolves wanted to throw in on my side. By Jim Butcher
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Nice father figure. Him and Bill Cosby. By Jim Butcher
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And if I was to die, I was not going to go out in a gibbering heap of terror. By Jim Butcher
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They didn't want to kill me. They wanted to hurt me. And they were good at it. By Jim Butcher
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Where germs go?""Sunrise," I said. "Poof."Butter's voice sounded bewildered. "Vampire germs?""The tiny capes are a dead giveaway. By Jim Butcher
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What happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. By Jim Butcher
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Me and polite have never been on close terms. By Jim Butcher
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One day," I told myself, "one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool." I By Jim Butcher
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Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face. Harry Dresden By Jim Butcher
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Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry" Assault formation! By Jim Butcher
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Not everyone can be equally right, Harry." "But believe you me, everyone can be equally wrong," I said. By Jim Butcher
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It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters. By Jim Butcher
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I declared her brain frozen and assumed command of the local Warden detachment, which was handy, since it consisted of only me anyway. By Jim Butcher
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Wizardry aside, it's tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats. By Jim Butcher
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I can't be under arrest right now," I said back to him. "I don't have the time. By Jim Butcher
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I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time. By Jim Butcher
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White for protection. And because they're the cheapest color at Wal-Mart. Hey, being a wizard doesn't make money grow on trees. By Jim Butcher
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The 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. By Jim Butcher
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If Gabriel is an ambassador, if Michael is a general, if Rafael is a healer and spiritual champion, then Uriel is a spymaster - Heaven's spook. By Jim Butcher
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I mean, a lot of teenage guys fail in their first relationships. Not many of them murder the girl involved. By Jim Butcher
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You know, I believe it is possible to reference something other than Star Wars, boss." I narrowed my eyes in Muppetly wisdom. "That is why you fail. By Jim Butcher
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The freaking Leanansidhe, deputy of Her Wickedness, with her Nietzsche and Darwin Were Sentimental Pansies outlook on life By Jim Butcher
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Fuck a Smurf and call him Gimpy, is that who I think it is? By Jim Butcher
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Run away. Me and Monty Python. By Jim Butcher
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It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it. By Jim Butcher
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The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you. By Jim Butcher
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You can tell a great deal about a person by looking at the people who share his life. Isana By Jim Butcher
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Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave. By Jim Butcher
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I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one. By Jim Butcher
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Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up. By Jim Butcher
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It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care. By Jim Butcher
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Hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut. By Jim Butcher
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Molly was a big believer in shaping the future by way of carrying anything you might need in a backpack. By Jim Butcher
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And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago? By Jim Butcher
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I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex. By Jim Butcher
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Which just goes to show that my cat has considerably more sense than me. By Jim Butcher
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Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy. By Jim Butcher
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None of us had known the layout to Marcone's place, so we'd chosen to approach from the rear, on general principles of sneakiness. By Jim Butcher
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I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore. By Jim Butcher
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Polka will never die!" Butters screamed. "I can't believe I'm hearing this," Thomas muttered. By Jim Butcher
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It doesn't take much power to hurt someone," she said. "It's far easier than healing the damage. By Jim Butcher
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You're playing the creepy vibe a little hard," I said. "Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music. By Jim Butcher
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Hell's bells. I don't call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks. By Jim Butcher
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The 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. By Jim Butcher
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Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to beholdAthena heading out on a Friday night. By Jim Butcher
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My God, there are times when the sexiest thing a woman can give a man is permission. By Jim Butcher
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The very best wizards don't need much more than chalk, table salt, and a wooden spoon to pull off some remarkable stuff. By Jim Butcher
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(One does not simply walk into Mordor--except that was exactly what everyone in the story did anyway.) By Jim Butcher
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Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed. By Jim Butcher
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The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 452," Bob said. "They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies. By Jim Butcher
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I serve.""Serve who?""Heaven. Or the divine in nature. The memory of my fathers past. My fellow man. Myself. All pieces of the same thing. By Jim Butcher
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Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment. By Jim Butcher
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What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be? By Jim Butcher
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Magic is a lot like language: it's all about stringing things together,linking one thing with another, one idea with another. By Jim Butcher
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Hell's bells," I muttered. "Harry, you idiot, when will you learn not to victory gloat? By Jim Butcher
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Maybe I should have listened to Murphy. Maybe I should have stayed home and played with some nice, safe, forbidden black magic instead. By Jim Butcher
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Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemonperfect. By Jim Butcher
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The border's been waggling back and forth like a hooker at a dockworker's convention. By Jim Butcher
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Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy. By Jim Butcher
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You know, sometimes I think Someone up there really hates me. By Jim Butcher
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You will probably find, in life, that successes and victories tend to overshadow the risks you took, while failure will amplify how idiotic they were. By Jim Butcher
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I ... drew out the gun I kept at home, a great big old Dirty Harry Callahan number that weighed about seventy-five thousand pounds. By Jim Butcher
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Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style. By Jim Butcher
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So," he said. "Mab."I grunted vaguely in reply."You hit that," Sanya said. By Jim Butcher
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Bob," I said over my shoulder. "Tell her it's me.""Can't," Bob said in a dreamy tone. "Boobs. By Jim Butcher
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There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic. By Jim Butcher
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Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. By Jim Butcher
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I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers. By Jim Butcher
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Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head. By Jim Butcher
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He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan By Jim Butcher
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You can be as sincere as hell and still be wrong. By Jim Butcher
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Bright, flowery plants ... were busy committing the olfactory equivalent of aggravated assault. By Jim Butcher
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Her look dared me to make some kind of chivalrous commentary. I didn't, and she didn't break my nose, by way of fair exchange. By Jim Butcher
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Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs. By Jim Butcher
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If you shoot, I will kill her before I die."Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet. By Jim Butcher
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If I could publish actual interviews with vampires - " "Sheesh, Susan. You're reading too much off the bestseller list. In By Jim Butcher
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Truth be told, my head was spinning so much that the car could have been doing interpretive dance in a lilac tutu and I might not have noticed. By Jim Butcher
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It's an old place, but it sings in the darkness and is, in its own quirky little way, alive. It's home. By Jim Butcher
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You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt. By Jim Butcher
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Playing cat and mouse is generally only fun for the cat. By Jim Butcher
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And may the crows feast on the unjust. By Jim Butcher
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No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden) By Jim Butcher
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Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car. By Jim Butcher
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You want it. I can see it in you." I gritted my teeth. "The part of me that wants it doesn't get a vote," I said. By Jim Butcher
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You think you're funny." "Oh, I know I'm funny. Unappreciated, but funny. By Jim Butcher
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Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding! By Jim Butcher
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There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm. By Jim Butcher
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By the time I got home, it was after two o'clock in the morning. The By Jim Butcher
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So I, uh, sort of threw myself out of the passenger seat of a moving car. Don't look at me like that. I'm telling you, it made sense at the time. By Jim Butcher
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You're mad," the fallen angel said."Get me some Alka Seltzer and I'll foam at the mouth, too. By Jim Butcher
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Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. By Jim Butcher
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The worst lies are almost always silence - or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core. By Jim Butcher
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There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different. By Jim Butcher
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Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation. By Jim Butcher
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I kicked him in the head with my rented formal shoes. My shoe went flying off, which I was pretty sure never happened to James Bond. The By Jim Butcher
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She had never gotten it through her gentle head that there was a time for a soft paw and a time for red claws. By Jim Butcher
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You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles! By Jim Butcher
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He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore. By Jim Butcher
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I thought I told you I didn't want to talk to you, Mr. Dresden." "I like women who play hard to get. By Jim Butcher
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Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust. By Jim Butcher
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You can tell a lot about a man from how he treats his dog, By Jim Butcher
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My own aches and bruises and cuts and wounds pained me, but it was an honest, stretchy pain, something that was healing. By Jim Butcher
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Never touch my brother on his fucking birthday. By Jim Butcher
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Fear and anger always come hand in hand. Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it. By Jim Butcher
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Bosun!" "Aye, skipper?" "Reinforce the mainmast, hang out all the laundry, and warn the witchmen! Let's make the old bitch fly! By Jim Butcher
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But... my choices haven't always been very good," I said."Whose have?" he asked. By Jim Butcher
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I tried not to be too obviously interested, and fumbled my notebook and trusty pencil from my duster's pocket. By Jim Butcher
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Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return. By Jim Butcher
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Lord," Michael said. "We walk into darkness now. Our enemies will surround us. Please help to make us strong enough to do what needs to be done. Amen. By Jim Butcher
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Woof," said Billy the Werewolf. By Jim Butcher
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As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms.""Eh?""Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit. By Jim Butcher
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Internet," she said sagely. "Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge. By Jim Butcher
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Here's something else I bet you didn't know about Tyrannosaurs: they don't corner well. By Jim Butcher
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There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice. By Jim Butcher
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You'd think as long as I was gambling with my soul, I would have thought to get Mab to throw in fifty bucks an hour plus expenses. By Jim Butcher
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This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears. By Jim Butcher
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Come on," I said to Karrin. "Head for the other boat.""Should we?" she asked. "That Erlking guy seems a little..do-it-yourselfy. By Jim Butcher
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It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others. By Jim Butcher
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I guess maybe you don't get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles By Jim Butcher
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The council is old school. Really, really old school. By Jim Butcher
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It rained toads the day the White Council came to town. By Jim Butcher
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The Senior Council""Couldn't find its heart if it had a copy of Grey's Anatomy, X-ray vision, and a stethoscope. By Jim Butcher
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I'm afraid it isn't good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad. By Jim Butcher
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One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored. By Jim Butcher
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Kestus idly added theoretical torture to the theoretical murder, because done right, it might be funny. By Jim Butcher
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I should far rather be drunk than eaten, Miss Lancaster," Ferus said in a serious tone. "As should we all. Very well, that's settled. By Jim Butcher
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You aren't explaining it very well." "Maybe," I said. "Or maybe you aren't learning it very well. By Jim Butcher
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If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it. By Jim Butcher
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I'm getting dumber by the minute," I confirmed. "Ask anybody. By Jim Butcher
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Imagine Smaug's treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste. By Jim Butcher
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I have a monster under my bed, and it's Mouse. By Jim Butcher
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Thank God for wisecracks. By Jim Butcher
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I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire. By Jim Butcher
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I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing. By Jim Butcher
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I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution. By Jim Butcher
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I've had sex that didn't feel as good as Maeve's smile. By Jim Butcher
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Like life is short," he said. "Like you don't know when it's going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can't ever be said. By Jim Butcher
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I'm a disciple of the Tao of Peter Parker, obviously, By Jim Butcher
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Nice try?" Butters said. "Mister, where I come from, there is no try. By Jim Butcher
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Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear "no" often enough. By Jim Butcher
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it would be a real pity to die when I'd finally put tabs on who had gotten me into this mess - By Jim Butcher
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I did absolutely nothing. Carefully. By Jim Butcher
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He sees the color blue," the etherealist said. "But his color blue. Not yours. By Jim Butcher
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We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville. By Jim Butcher
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You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone. By Jim Butcher
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Those who had never seen a tribe of cats at war, or at least playing war games, would look upon what came next as utter chaos. By Jim Butcher
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I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser. By Jim Butcher
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Every jungle creature for fifty or sixty yards started raising holy hell on the what-the-fuck-was-that party line. By Jim Butcher
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My gast was pretty well flabbered. By Jim Butcher
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Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous. By Jim Butcher
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I'm not a doctor," Butters said.We'd done this dance several times. "You are the Mighty Butters," I said. "You can do anything. By Jim Butcher
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Lies. Mab cannot change who you are. By Jim Butcher
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I hear that they make disinfectants that don't hurt these days. But Charity used iodine. By Jim Butcher
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How do i do this? By Jim Butcher
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Dude," I said, making the word a disgusted sound. "Single guys everywhere hate you. Starting with me. By Jim Butcher
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He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality. By Jim Butcher
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Worry is fear in disguise. By Jim Butcher
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I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity. By Jim Butcher
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Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first. By Jim Butcher
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are dangerous. Wills are dangerous. You are heavily armed with both." Tavi By Jim Butcher
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Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated. By Jim Butcher
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You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now. By Jim Butcher
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The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, he said, and turned for the door. By Jim Butcher
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So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying? By Jim Butcher
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Fear is a funny thing. In the right light, even tiny and insignificant fears can suddenly grow, swelling up to monstrous proportions. By Jim Butcher
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All you have to do is to hold them until the cops get here, and then you can bleed to death in peace. Or get to a doctor. Whichever hurts less. By Jim Butcher
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You know, it wouldn't kill you to be a little more polite." "Why take chances," I muttered, By Jim Butcher
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More than anything, she wanted to be someplace warm and safebut duty was a cold and barren shelter for a wounded spirit. By Jim Butcher
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Speed of lightning! Roar of thunder! Fighting all who rob or plunder! Underdog! By Jim Butcher
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What one deserves and what one experiences are seldom congruent. By Jim Butcher
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Parkour," I panted. "Bitch. By Jim Butcher
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Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy! By Jim Butcher
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He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility. By Jim Butcher
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What's with that?' Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. 'Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie? By Jim Butcher
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The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean. By Jim Butcher
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A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too. By Jim Butcher
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Marcone's scum, but he's his own scum -Harry Dresden By Jim Butcher
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Stop learning, start dying. By Jim Butcher
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All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. By Jim Butcher
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There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy. By Jim Butcher
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They were donuts of darkness. By Jim Butcher
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myself under control. By Jim Butcher
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Trials and half a dozen smaller By Jim Butcher
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Hell's Bells-Harry Dresden By Jim Butcher
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This is what it look like when it WORKS? By Jim Butcher
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Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time. By Jim Butcher
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- Did you really save the world ? ... - Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot. By Jim Butcher
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There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity. By Jim Butcher
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Bad things kept happening to me. It was high fucking time I started happening to them. Maeve By Jim Butcher
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Better to have the magical arsenal and not need it, than to not have it and get killed to death. I By Jim Butcher
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You walk through the door and everything goes to hell." "That's embroidered on my towels, actually. By Jim Butcher
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she had that kind of matronly plumpness that comes with age, pasta, and a comfortable life. By Jim Butcher
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There are many things you have never done," Rowl responded. "To be frightened of them is of no use to you. By Jim Butcher
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Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. By Jim Butcher
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The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming. By Jim Butcher
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Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I said. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. By Jim Butcher
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I parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots. By Jim Butcher
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Don't yadda yadda the Lord, Harry. It's disrespectful. By Jim Butcher
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Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while. By Jim Butcher
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Mab had the kind of power you had to describe using exponents. By Jim Butcher
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I died," I said. "I died and someone made a clerical error and this is heaven. By Jim Butcher
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You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place. By Jim Butcher
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I pressed past the outer branches of the lilacs and found a small and relatively open space in the middle. Then I waited. By Jim Butcher
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Sleep is God. Go worship. By Jim Butcher
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He clenched his hands into fists and opened them again several times, as though strangling baby ducks. By Jim Butcher
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Rowl felt sure that Bridget's fragile feelings would be crushed if he denied her the pleasure of sharing her meat with him. By Jim Butcher
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Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. By Jim Butcher
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I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled ... By Jim Butcher
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Steady as she goes, Mister Kettle," the grim gaptain said, his voice stern. By Jim Butcher
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Kincaid! Bolshevik Muppet! By Jim Butcher
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How long do I have to take care of it?" I asked. "SOON." "Soon? How soon is soon? What do you mean, soon? By Jim Butcher
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Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight. By Jim Butcher
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Summer and Winter, constantly chasing each other, wounding what the other heals and healing what the other wounds. By Jim Butcher
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I hate it when the real world ignores a perfectly logical, rational assumption. By Jim Butcher
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I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children. By Jim Butcher
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There is more to the world than what a review board publishes about an officer or aeronaut, Miss Lancaster. Guard. Your. Tongue. By Jim Butcher
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Death is as light as a feather, duty heavier than a spire. By Jim Butcher
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I've had a tense couple of days. And I've got to tell you, burning someone's face off sounds like a great way to relax. By Jim Butcher
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Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations. By Jim Butcher
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Lady Aquitaine sighed. Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum. By Jim Butcher
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Life?" I suggested. She shrugged. "Desire. Loneliness. Joy. Pain." "Life," I said. By Jim Butcher
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And the sex," I said. "It will be frequent. Possibly violent. You'll be screaming. Neighbors will make phone calls. By Jim Butcher
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I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts. By Jim Butcher
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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. By Jim Butcher
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You.... tapped that ass. Presumably it was, phat? By Jim Butcher
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Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless. By Jim Butcher
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Everyone thinks magic is something different. By Jim Butcher
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He'd died a hero. It seemed so empty to me, at that moment. Meaningless to be a hero. By Jim Butcher
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Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained. By Jim Butcher
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Dawn is significant, magically speaking. It is a time of new beginnings. By Jim Butcher
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Could just be Chicago. Which can be just as scary as Mab, some days. By Jim Butcher
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It's easy to do the right thing when it doesn't cost you. Not as easy to do the right thing when your back is to the wall." Fitz By Jim Butcher
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Crap," I gasped. "I am not going to be known as the wizard who used his death curse thanks to a bunch of bitty nail guns. By Jim Butcher
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You can't win a war sitting behind a wall and hoping the enemy decides to leave. By Jim Butcher
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Subtle and quick to anger?" "Not so subtle. By Jim Butcher
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The blow made her see stars. There was no time for astronomy in ground fighting, she thought, By Jim Butcher
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Nobody can be bad at everything. There's no such thing as a perfect screwup. By Jim Butcher
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Pretty please. With sugar. By Jim Butcher
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I hadn't realized, until I actually heard his voice, how much I'd missed the demented little perv. By Jim Butcher
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What should I do?" Uriel asked. "Sit," I said. "Stay inside. Don't put pennies in the outlets or play with matches or run with scissors. By Jim Butcher
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Man sees faces. Sees skin. Flags. Membership lists. Files. God sees hearts. By Jim Butcher
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In the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway. By Jim Butcher
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Patiently, more gentle than rain, she made me clean, while I drifted, my eyes closed. By Jim Butcher
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I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said. By Jim Butcher
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I know I've screwed up," I said. "I'm going to have to live with that. But I don't want to lose you. By Jim Butcher
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She came back with a can of Coke and a can of Diet Coke, and handed me the nonvile one. By Jim Butcher
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Things were weird enough without needing to ride around in a van with a bunch of naked, somewhat geeky college students. By Jim Butcher
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I put the ick in magic. By Jim Butcher
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You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame.Sanya to Dresden By Jim Butcher
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It hurts!" bellowed Ramirez drunkenly, flinging a last pair of bolts at a fleeing ghoul. "Ow! Ow, it hurts! It hurts to be this *good*! By Jim Butcher
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You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony. By Jim Butcher
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No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long. By Jim Butcher
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It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job. By Jim Butcher
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Spear and magic helmet," I said in my best Elmer Fudd voice. "Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting vampires. By Jim Butcher
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Good man always stands against that. By Jim Butcher
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Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory. By Jim Butcher
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Beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy. By Jim Butcher
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There had to be something I could do. Had to be. There had to be. By Jim Butcher
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I blinked slowly at that notion. "A honeymoon free of your mother-in-law." "Worth more than gold or jewels," Hades said. By Jim Butcher
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My cat walked on my face just after dawn. By Jim Butcher
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Finish that sentence, Raith, and we throw down, said Murphy in a calm, level voice. By Jim Butcher
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Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears. By Jim Butcher
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Peace cannot be bought, Aleron," he murmured to LaFortier. "History teaches that lesson. I learned it. You should have, too." LaFortier By Jim Butcher
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I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. By Jim Butcher
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Troubleshooters?" Michael asked."When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it. By Jim Butcher
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How long have you been a Sidhe-sicle? By Jim Butcher
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Vanity, thy name is vampire. By Jim Butcher
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I leaned against the wall, dazed, panting, and gasped, in my deepest and most gravelly voice, No one can chain the Hulk! By Jim Butcher
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Murphy, you rock! Go team Dresden!""Hey, I'm the one who rocks ... Go team Murphy. By Jim Butcher
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You are the help." "We're in trouble," I said. By Jim Butcher
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Of course cats [can see ghosts]. As far as I can tell, all cats. But they aren't terribly impressed with the fact that we're dead and still present. By Jim Butcher
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Thank God for imminent doomsday. By Jim Butcher
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planning became a great deal simpler and easier when one didn't have the additional bother of working out how to survive said plan. By Jim Butcher
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The Sidhe are prancy, but fierce. By Jim Butcher
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Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. By Jim Butcher
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Everybody should get to make a living with their passion. By Jim Butcher
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I was staring into a mirror, and I didn't like what I saw there. By Jim Butcher
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The only thing certain in life is change. By Jim Butcher
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Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it. By Jim Butcher
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Whatever happened to "Ia, Ia, Cthulu fthtagn"? ... No one has a sense of style anymore -Harry Dresden By Jim Butcher
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I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern. A By Jim Butcher
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The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself. By Jim Butcher
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Like "love," "hope" is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer. By Jim Butcher
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How bad is it?" "They drafted me," I said. "That's bad, all right," Bob said cheerfully. By Jim Butcher
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There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once. By Jim Butcher
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Light shines brightest in the deepest dark! By Jim Butcher
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I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, Uh-oh. By Jim Butcher
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Surely, that is merely a colorful euphemism, rather than a statement of desire. By Jim Butcher
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Guru in the Ukraine, By Jim Butcher
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Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood. By Jim Butcher
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You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it. By Jim Butcher
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My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought. By Jim Butcher
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Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them. By Jim Butcher
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Survival was not enough. One had to live. By Jim Butcher
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If you can't manage courtesy, try silence. By Jim Butcher
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Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions. By Jim Butcher
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We're all imaginary friends to one another, By Jim Butcher
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Faith, Harry. God has a way of seeing to it that things fall into place. By Jim Butcher
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Same result, only I'd be steam-cooked instead of roasted. By Jim Butcher
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Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn't mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did. By Jim Butcher
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seeing a wizard cut loose can do that to By Jim Butcher
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Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it. By Jim Butcher
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You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them. By Jim Butcher
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He's a rather brilliant defensive tactician," Grimm said. "I agree," Bayard said. "The problem is that he's an inept defensive strategist. By Jim Butcher
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But I'd never been very good at expressing myself verbally. By Jim Butcher
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Lots of things are more than what they seem in a purely physical sense. By Jim Butcher
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I am pure of heart and mind," I told her. "I cannot be corrupted. By Jim Butcher
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Wow. That's sort of pretty. In a Jaws kind of way. By Jim Butcher
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Anger subsides. Love doesn't. By Jim Butcher
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You are the only man I ever met," Tera growled, "who would smash the paws that are trying to free you from certain death. By Jim Butcher
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My pledge of honor upon it. By Jim Butcher
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I always thought it would get easier to be a person as I aged. But it just gets more and more complicated. By Jim Butcher
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I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you. By Jim Butcher
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I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits. By Jim Butcher
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How about it, wizard? Cop? Maybe you've got stones enough to take it when I threaten you. I can admire that. By Jim Butcher
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Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate. By Jim Butcher
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Do not read what you don't like By Jim Butcher
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The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there. By Jim Butcher
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And it was all your fault, Harry. By Jim Butcher
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That underlay the city of Chicago. By Jim Butcher
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It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time. By Jim Butcher
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Describing something helps to define it, to give it limits, to set guardrails of understanding around it. By Jim Butcher
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Loopy as a crochet convention. By Jim Butcher
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I gritted my teeth and got out of Butters's car, By Jim Butcher
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Sometimes, son," Count Calderon said, "you have to acknowledge that your future is in someone else's hands. By Jim Butcher
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I'm not exactly a useless cream puff. By Jim Butcher
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I like dogs. They give Mister something to snack on. By Jim Butcher
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Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick. By Jim Butcher
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With your head, the wall breaks first. By Jim Butcher
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You don't have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you. By Jim Butcher
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Jealousy is common among lesser men, By Jim Butcher
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My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps. By Jim Butcher
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I trust you, she said. Three words. Big ones. Especially coming from her. By Jim Butcher
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Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for. By Jim Butcher
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We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love. By Jim Butcher
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That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington's been doing it like that for decades. By Jim Butcher
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Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile. By Jim Butcher
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The best magic comes from the inside. By Jim Butcher
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I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now. By Jim Butcher
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I leaned closer and gave her the look I usually save for rampaging demons and those survey people at malls. By Jim Butcher
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Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. By Jim Butcher
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You may pretend you are like them. But you are not. By Jim Butcher
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Time to start doing," I whispered. By Jim Butcher
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Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones ... Words will never, et cetera. By Jim Butcher
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Truth does not become untruth simply because its existence upsets the scion of a High House. By Jim Butcher
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It wasn't until later that I would realize that I was babbling a chant of "Ubriacha, ubrius, ubrium," to the Peanuts theme music. By Jim Butcher
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I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it. By Jim Butcher
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He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there. By Jim Butcher
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She held up her hand, palm up - another one of those gestures, their meanings forgotten by everyone except for long-term wackjobs like Dresden. By Jim Butcher
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Erlking," I told her. "Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.""Why?" she asked."Well. I met him," I said. By Jim Butcher
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They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on women. By Jim Butcher
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For a second, I wanted very badly to know a spell that would let me melt through the floor in a quivering puddle of please-don't-kill-me. By Jim Butcher
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When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching they are your family. By Jim Butcher
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We're all the hero of our own story. By Jim Butcher
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I tried to take that as a life lesson: never underestimate the little people. By Jim Butcher
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Hell's bells, irony blows. By Jim Butcher
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If I ever invade Calderon again," he said, "it will be in the summer. By Jim Butcher
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Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise. By Jim Butcher
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The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while. By Jim Butcher
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You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep." He By Jim Butcher
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And just because I don't go to bed with everything with a vagina doesn't mean I'm repressed. By Jim Butcher
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Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day. By Jim Butcher
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I'm a wizard. That means I have power, and power and responsibility go hand in hand. By Jim Butcher
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Better the enemy you know than the enemy you don't. By Jim Butcher
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You are a rare kind of crazy, man. By Jim Butcher
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Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else. By Jim Butcher
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Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether. By Jim Butcher
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And several bulging bookshelves which I really will organize one day. By Jim Butcher
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Martin was alphabetizing my bookshelves. They used to kill men for sacrilege like that. By Jim Butcher
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My imagination needs therapy. By Jim Butcher
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It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place ... By Jim Butcher
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The deepest joys and most terrible wounds were both to be had from family. The By Jim Butcher
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For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex. By Jim Butcher
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You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table. By Jim Butcher
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Ohhhh," Molly said wisely. "Those are fun-time handcuffs, not bad-time handcuffs. I gotcha. By Jim Butcher
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Ack! I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me. By Jim Butcher
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Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don't tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders. By Jim Butcher
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You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer. By Jim Butcher