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eb00068
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Chew and smile? At the same time? Do I look like Jackie Chan?
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1ebb610
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Look," I said. "Me and the island are . . . kind of partners." "Oh, right," Thomas said. He looked at Karrin and said, "Harry's a geosexual."
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Jim Butcher |
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bb050bb
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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."
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Jim Butcher |
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She was furious that I had seen her true form, horrified and embarrassed that I had stripped her disguise away and seen the creature beneath. And she was afraid that I could take away even her mask, forever, with my power.
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Jim Butcher |
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da0ad4d
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Very few people understand that swords aren't dangerous, Tavi, nor hands nor arms, nor furies. Minds are dangerous. Wills are dangerous. You are heavily armed with both.
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aefeebe
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I run--and not so that I'll be skinny and look good, either. I run so that when something that wants to kill me is chasing me, I'll be good at running.
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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."
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Jim Butcher |
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f28e3da
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I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now.
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Jim Butcher |
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5f91436
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Wars and plans can't coexist, sir. One of them kills the other.
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Jim Butcher |
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c5d5216
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What can I say? I put the 'ick' in 'magic'.
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Jim Butcher |
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3fd11af
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Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.
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life
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Jim Butcher |
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7289f2a
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What is this thing you speak of, 'sleep'?
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Jim Butcher |
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91f63e9
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If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it.
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star-wars
gangster
mob
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aca408e
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I scowled. "Murphy's made of muscle. You just can't see it under the suit and the body armor," I said. "And she hasn't gotten lucky with me either." Ascher stared at me for a second and blinked slowly. "You're . . . serious, aren't you?" "We're complicated," I said. "Because you're twitchy?" "And she's had a couple of divorces. And her ex-boyfriend kind of shot me." "What?" "I asked him to," I said hurriedly. "What?"
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Jim Butcher |
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bb2213f
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The reward for work well-done is more work.
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Jim Butcher |
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7bcfc5d
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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."
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Jim Butcher |
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You know he's not going to honor the truce," I said quietly. "He's going to try to take me out somewhere along the line. He's going to betray me." "Of course," she said. "I expect superior, more creative treachery on your part."
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Jim Butcher |
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I was doing the new Summer Lady a favor, running down a rogue storm sylph. Got to go all over the place in those tornado-chaser geekmobiles. You should have seen the look on the driver's face when he realized that the tornado was chasing .
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humor
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None of my issues have included memory loss or unconscious actions," she said. Thomas squinted back at her. "If they had, how would you know it?" Molly frowned. "Valid point."
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funny
wizard
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Jim Butcher |
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6007a97
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If you want to live, if you want your friends and family to live, I expect you to do more than survive it," Mab said, sweeping out. "I expect you to skin them alive."
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Jim Butcher |
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Race me back. Beat me there, and I'll tell you." I blinked. "What kind of kindergarten crap is that?" His grey eyes flashed with anger. "You want to know what it's like? Beat me down the beach." "Of all the ridiculous, immature nonsense," I said. Then I hooked a foot behind Thomas's calf, shoved him down to the sand, and took off down the beach at a dead sprint."
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Jim Butcher |
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Shame, child, is for those who fail to live up to the ideal of what they believe they should be.
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Jim Butcher |
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He nodded. "Someone really would get suspicious if they saw you roaming around. If I need you I'll give you a signal." "What signal?" "I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl," he said with a waggle of his eyebrows. He headed out the door. "Back in a minute."
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Jim Butcher |
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I can't tell you how many jobs I've done without a hitch since the last time I saw you, Dresden. You walk through the door and everything goes to hell." "That's embroidered on my towels, actually," I said."
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Jim Butcher |
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Harry," Bob said. "Stars and skies, you're all right!" He hesitated for a second, and then said, "And looking grim. Even dressed in boxers with yellow duckies on them." I glanced down, and did my best to picture a vampire wearing boxers with yellow duckies. Or a wizard wearing yellow duckies, for that matter."
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Jim Butcher |
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Dammit, man. I'm a Faerie Princess, not a forensic analyst." I"
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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.
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Jim Butcher |
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d6f75d9
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Martin was alphabetizing my bookshelves. They used to kill men for sacrilege like that.
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Jim Butcher |
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The curve of her smile promised things that were probably illegal, and bad for you, and would carry warnings from the Surgeon General, but that you'd still want to do over and over again.
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Jim Butcher |
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d7eb62a
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And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago?
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Jim Butcher |
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Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells.
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Jim Butcher |
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There is something holy, something divine, hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.' 'What's that supposed to mean?' I asked. 'That the good that will come is not always obvious. Nor easy to see. Nor in the place we would expect to find it. Nor what we personally desire. You should consider that the good being created by the events this night may have nothing to do with the defeat of supernatur..
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inspirational
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Jim Butcher |
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Even days that culminate in a grand battle against an insane ghost and a trip across the border between this world and the spirit realm usually start out pretty normally.
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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.
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Jim Butcher |
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After the way I left, I suddenly find myself wanting very much to go home. But . . . it won't be the same when I get back. Will it?" "It will be the same," Grimm said. "You're the one who has changed."
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Jim Butcher |
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And it was all your fault, Harry.
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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.
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Jim Butcher |
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At that, Ascher stood up. "Hi," she said, smiling brightly. "You don't know me. I'm Hannah. Back off my partner before you get hurt." "I know who you are, hot stuff," I drawled, not standing. I set my staff down across the table. "And I already backed off your partner. You can tell from how there aren't any splatter marks. Play nice, Ascher." Her smile vanished at my response, and her dark eyes narrowed. She drummed her nails on the tableto..
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Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.
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Jim Butcher |
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There are no words. It was like The Lord of the Rings and All My Children made a baby with the Macho Man Randy Savage and a Whac-A-Mole machine.
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Jim Butcher |
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Back to my apartment? The FBI is there just waiting to slap handcuffs on me." "Well then I guess you shouldn't have decided to become a terrorist, Harry!" "Hey, I never--" Bob raised his voice and shouted toward the centipedes, "I'm not with him!"
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There was a small stone in her palm, a deep blue opal. I leaned a little closer, eyeing it. It was set on a silver stud--an earring. "It should suffice to contain the parasite for what time remains," Mab said. "Put it on." "My ears aren't pierced," I objected. Mab arched an eyebrow. "Are you the Winter Knight or some sort of puling child?" I scowled at her. "Come over here and say that." At that, Mab calmly stepped onto the shore of Demonre..
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mortal-thing
harry-dresden
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Susan's fingers wandered, and her eyes sparkled. "Your mouth says no," she purred, "but says yes." I went up on my toes, and swallowed, trying to keep my balance and get her hand off me at the same time. "That thing is saying something stupid," I told her."
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Jim Butcher |
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f747745
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That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate.
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humor
grammar
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