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Do you feel you should walk the same path because so many have walked it before you came,
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Ebenezar blinked . Then he turned his face to me his expression clearly asking whether or not I was out of my damned mind . "Wile E. Coyote" I said to him soberly . "Suuuuuuper Genius"
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Wow," Bob said, in a perfectly calm, matter-of-fact, conversational tone. "That is incredibly unfair."
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At the end of the day, the greatest power Harry has is in lifting up the people around him.
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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.
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Kord sees power as something to satisfy his desires, instead of a tool to protect and serve the people beholden to him. It's a stupid attitude, and it will eventually get him killed--but until then it makes him dangerous.
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It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .
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The Queen smiled with the tiniest twitch of a single corner of her mouth. "Why should I do that?" "Because I'm coming," Octavian's image said, very quietly, "for you."
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Granted, my perspective is different from that of nonwizards, but marching out into the woods, looking for a very large and very powerful creature by blasting out what you're pretty sure are territorial challenges to fight (or else mating calls) seems ... somewhat unwise.
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Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them."
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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.
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Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous." "We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing." "That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
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words
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I've got blisters and muscle cramps in places not meant for the touch of anything but a beautiful woman," Max spat back sullenly. "I've bitten my tongue so many times in the past three days that I whistle in musical chords when I exhale. And the smell isn't ever going to come out of my armor, I just know it."
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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.
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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.
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The deepest joys and most terrible wounds were both to be had from family. The
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For a man so strong, he was gentle. When his hands, his arms, his mouth were on her, he moved as if afraid she might shatter if held too tightly. Their nights together had been and remained a blaze of passion, for he was a wickedly patient lover who took delight in her responses to him. But more than that, in the quiet hours after he would hold her, both of them weary, content, sleepy. She would lie in his arms and feel no worry, or sadness..
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Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move it from an indefensible point and to attack the opponent. ~ Lord Aquitainus Attis ~ Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
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Worry is fear in disguise.
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Molly was a big believer in shaping the future by way of carrying anything you might need in a backpack.
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But... my choices haven't always been very good," I said. "Whose have?" he asked."
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You have enemies enough without tearing open your own wounds over things you could not have prevented.
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Every potion has eight parts. One part is a base liquid to hold the others and provide a medium for mixing. Five parts are symbolically linked to each of the five senses. One is similarly linked to the mind, and another to the spirit. The basic ingredient to the stimulant potion was coffee, while the base for the scent-masking potion was water. I got them both to boiling.
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I snagged a golden paper crown from one of the bags, and idly joined it into a circle and put it on my head. Susan blinked at me and let out a brief laugh. 'I am' I intoned with an imperious narrowing of my eyes, 'the burger king.
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You can have your harem change out the bandages later," I said. "How busy are you today?" "Oh," he mused. "I don't know. I mean, I've got to get a new shirt now." "After that," I asked, "would you like to help me save the city? If you don't already have plans." He snorted. "You mean, would I like to follow you around, wondering what the hell is going on because you won't tell me everything, then get in a fight with something that is going t..
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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.
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and several bulging bookshelves which I really will organize one day.
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Mister went to his spot before the fireplace and demanded that it be made warm.
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I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.
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I used to think I loved it. But now I realize that it's just dependency.
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Chicago. It's insane and violent and corrupt and vital and artistic and noble and cruel and wonderful. It's full of greed and hope and hate and desire and excitement and pain and happiness. The air sings with screams and laughter, with sirens, with angry shouts, with gunshots, with music. It's an impossible city, at war with itself, every horrible and wonderful thing blending together to create something terrifying and lovely and utterly un..
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I hadn't realized, until I actually heard his voice, how much I'd missed the demented little perv.
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A mangled corpse in the middle of a blood-drenched floor. Berserk FBI field agents drawing guns and shooting to kill. A little kung fu, a little John Wayne, and a few casual threats. So far, I thought, my nerves jangling, just one more night on the job.
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The Faerie Courts are duking it out up there, and it's probably going to be very hairy. The Summer Lady is our baddie, and the Winter Knight is her bitch. She has a magic hankie. She's going to use it to change a statue into a girl and kill her on a big Flintstones table at midnight.
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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."
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Wizardry aside, it's tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats.
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Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.
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Jealousy is common among lesser men,
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But dammit, words mean what they mean, even if everyone thinks they ought to mean something else.
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In combat situations, your choices can be judged based only against what you knew at the time. To expect anything more of a soldier is to demand that he or she be superhuman. Which seems, to me, unreasonable.
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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.
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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.
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I held my hand up, frowning. "Wait a minute. Where did you say this thing was stolen from?" "The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist." Father Vincent said. "In Northern Italy." I said. He nodded. "In Turin, to be exact." "He nodded again, his expression reserved. "Someone stole the freaking ?" I demanded. "Yes."
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Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get done.
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