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ce6ccc7
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Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.
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dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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a14b213
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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.
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dresden-files
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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0009a65
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No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for what might be very good reasons. They make choice after choice, and none of them is slaughtering roomfuls of saints, or murdering hundreds of baby seals, or rubber-room irrational. But it adds up. And then one day they look around and realized that they're so far over the line that they can't remember where it was.
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good-and-evil
villains
dresden-files
evil
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Jim Butcher |
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99339a2
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Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.
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fear
fight-or-flight-response
dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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d3113aa
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There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear....
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turn-coat
dresden-files
jim-butcher
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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8ee80e2
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"Injun Joe studied the body for a moment, his eyes sad. Then he said, "I'd rather go in my sleep, I think." He glanced back at me. "What about you?" "I want to be stepped on by an elephant while having sex with identical triplet cheerleaders," I said." --
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dresden-files
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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1904688
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It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.
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humor
domesticity
dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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9876c32
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Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.
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dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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428ba8b
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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.
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change
fire
dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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180d08d
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Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.
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self-sabotage
dresden-files
molly-carpenter
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Jim Butcher |
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a37820c
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I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.
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questions
dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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6b46eba
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"[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal." The kid lifted his eyebrows. "My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing."
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dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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fce1c62
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We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.
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philosophy
dresden-files
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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67f4f5e
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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."
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insults
dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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74f9530
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"This isn't going to work," Justine murmured. "It is going to work," I told her, keeping my tone confident. "We'll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us." Justine glanced at me with an arched eyebrow. "The Rack?" "The Rack is more than just boobs, Justine," I told her soberly. "It's an energy field created by all living boobs. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together." --
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girl-power
funny
humor
femininity
geek
the-rack
dresden-files
star-wars
molly-carpenter
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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7dc6b94
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"You're going to have to take care of yourself," Karrin said quietly. "Over the next few weeks. Rest. Give yourself a chance to heal. Keep the wound on your leg clean. Get to a doctor and get that arm into a proper cast. I know you can't feel it, but it's important that--" I stood, leaned over the bed, and kissed her on the mouth. Her words dissolved into a soft sound that vibrated against my lips. Then her good arm slid around my neck, and there wasn't any sound at all. It was a long kiss. A slow kiss. A good one. I didn't draw away until it came to its end. I didn't open my eyes for a moment after. "...oh...," she said in a small voice. Her hand slid down my arm to lie upon mine. "We do crazy things for love," I said quietly, and turned my hand over, fingers curling around hers."
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kiss
romance
love
injured
dresden-files
hospital
murphy
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Jim Butcher |
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a0c0a5c
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Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.
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consequences
fantasies
playboy
dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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4de6d7b
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Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.
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dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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10ae4cb
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"Raith smiled. "There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You were made to feel desire. I was made to use it against you. It is the natural cycle. Life and death. Mating and death. Predator and Prey." Raith leaned closer with each word, and brushed his lips against Murphy's throat as he spoke. "Born mortal. Born weak. And easily taken." ... "And that's only a taste, child. When you know what it is to be truly taken later this night, you will understand that your life ended the moment I wanted you."
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house-raith
lord-raith
dresden-files
jim-butcher
urban-fantasy
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Jim Butcher |