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I know what it's like to lose it.
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except that Morgan's face was too pinched and thin to pull off the look. "Your point being?" I did my best to keep from looking nervous or impressed. Truth be told, I was both. Morgan was my Warden, assigned to me by the White Council to make sure I didn't bend or break any of the Laws of Magic. He hung about and spied on me, mostly, and usually came sniffing around after I'd cast a spell of some kind. I would be damned if I was going to le..
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There is no spoon.
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illusion
funny
matrix
wizard
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People don't give a flying fuck if Uncle Jeffrey really forgives them for missing his last birthday party. They want to know that the world is a place where Uncle Jeffrey can and should forgive them.
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No one was standing in the shadows smoking a cigarette or looking about with a shifty-eyed gaze. I couldn't see anyone quickly hiding a bloody knife behind his back or twirling a moustache, either. That ruled out the Dudley Do-Right approach to finding the killer.
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These evil freaks," Karrin said. "They always pick the most charming places to hang out."
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It was like a fire in my thoughts, my concentration, burning ever more brightly, more pure, refining my anger, my hate, into something steel-hard, steel-sharp. I could feel it burning, and reached for it eagerly, shoving the pain inside to fuel my incandescent anger.
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To the best of my knowledge, sir," Benedict said in an apologetic tone, "no one has ever been able to tell my dear cousin anything. At all."
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stubbornness
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I tapped Boz on the shoulder and said, "Hey, gorgeous." His face twisted in complete surprise, turning to stare in blank incomprehension at mine. I winked at him, and whispered, "Boo."
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Get out of the way, Mavra. Or don't get out of the way. If you try to stop us from leaving, if you try to hurt anyone under my protection, you'll be dealing with a Wizard of the Council, a Knight of the Sword and a girl with a basket full of garlic and holy water. I don't care how big, bad, and ugly you are, there won't be anything left of you but a greasy spot on the floor.
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Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault.
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funny
smell
flowers
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732e965
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Make ready to repel boarders.
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Jim Butcher |
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When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.
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thinking
turmoil
walk
walking
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I know you haven't burned down any buildings in a while," she said, "but if you start feeling the need..."
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funny
fire
wizard
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I scowled at him. "Not every good thing that happens is divine intervention, Michael." "True," Michael said, "but I prefer to give Him the credit unless I have a good reason to believe otherwise. It seems more polite than the other way around."
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Finally, I said, very quietly, 'I don't know if I'm one of the good guys anymore.
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good-person
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Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.
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Mortimer Lindquist seemed to have finally given in to the inevitable. I'd seen him with a bad toupee, and with an even worse comb-over, but this was the first time I'd seen him sporting a full-on Charles Xavier.
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funny
x-men
hair
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Harry waxes poetic about magic. He'll go on and on about how it comes from your feelings, and how it's a deep statement about the nature of your soul, and then he'll whip out some kind of half-divine, half-insane philosophy he's cobbled together from the words of saints and comic books about the importance of handling power responsibly.
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stan-lee
spiderman
harry-dresden
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and to my dog, without whom I would not be reminded daily that I am essentially little more than a ridiculous human being who has somehow swindled somebody into paying me to write down conversations with my imaginary friends.
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Meanwhile the whole of the Realm worries that I may already have seen my last winter, yet have appointed no heir to succeed me--while High Lords like Aquitaine seem ready to swim to the throne through a river of blood, if necessary." Miles considered the enormity of it for a moment in silence. "Balls."
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Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that of his enemies.
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worthiness
quality
judgement
enemies
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That was the entire reason to have battle commanders in the first place--so that one man could balance the advantages of logic and reason against the emotional, insane demands of close battle.
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After Tolkien I went after C. S. Lewis. After Lewis, it was Lloyd Alexander. After them came Fritz Leiber, Roger Zelazny, Robert Howard, John Norman, Poul Anderson, David Eddings, Weis and Hickman, Terry Brooks, Elizabeth Moon, Glen Cook,
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I don't trust electronics. Anything manufactured after the forties is suspect--and doesn't seem to have much liking for me. You name it: cars, radios, telephones, TVs, VCRs--none of them seem to behave well for me.
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Life's easier when you can write off others as monsters, as demons, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared. The thing is, you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.
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He shook his head. "Love killed the dinosaurs, man."
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Precisely. I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.
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Jim Butcher |
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I find it remarkable how often amateurs confuse courage with idiocy.
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MY NAME IS Mouse and I am a Good Dog. Everyone says so.
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Death is certain, Aleran--for all of us. That being true, we know that all of those we love will either be torn away from us, or we will be torn away from them. It follows as naturally as the night after sundown.
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We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.
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I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.
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The Queen closed her eye and nodded. She opened it again, and there was a tear tracking down her face. "I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal."
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Bernard had become, not so much important to her as he was natural to her whole being. He was as much a part of her thoughts as breath, food, and sleep. At once present and not present, conspicuous with his absence and filling her with a sense of completion when he was there.
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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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Well," Antillus Raucus said. "There it is." "Brilliant last words," Phrygius said beside him. "We'll put them on your memorium. Right next to, 'He died stating the obvious.' " "Ah," Lord Placida said. "It begins." "See?" Phrygius said. "Sandos knows how to go out with style." "You want to go out with style, I'll strangle you with your best silk tunic," growled Antillus."
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Jim Butcher |
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Fuego!" shouted someone on the walls - and for a second I was hit with a little sting of insult. Someone was shouting "fuego" and it wasn't me." --
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Jim Butcher |
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You have to find solutions where you can, not where convenient.
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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." I put my hand over my heart, grinning at him. "Ow."
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Jim Butcher |
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It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are," Benedict said, his tone amused. "It works particularly well against those who aren't as intelligent as you in the first place."
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intelligence
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Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively."
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Jim Butcher |
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Maybe," he said in a slow, rural drawl, "You could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy." "Well," I said. "If you're going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn't it."
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Jim Butcher |
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The government isn't the mob, Harry." "Aren't they?" I asked. "Pay them money every year to protect you, and God help you if you don't."
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Jim Butcher |