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Birthdays are about families. Whether they're a biological family or one that's come together by choice, it's your family who gathers to celebrate the anniversary of *you*.
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many-bloody-returns
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Jim Butcher |
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The door is ajar," the dashboard said. "It won't shut up," I explained to him. "It gets sort of Zen after a while," Butters said brightly. "Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar."
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It is that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to believe that they can win a war, that war is lost.
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war
morale
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Jim Butcher |
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When the Almighty speaks to men, He always does it in voices they can understand,
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I think men who lust for power are capable of almost anything.
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I blinked and squinted against the light. I recognized the voice now. "Hi, Murphy. This is going to be one of those conversations, isn't it?"
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I limped over to Luccio and nodded at the tables Mac had set up. "I hope there's room enough. When are the other Wardens arriving?" Luccio fixed me with a quiet, weary gaze. Then she drew her hands from beneath her cloak and held out a folded bundle wrapped in brown paper, offering it to me. "Take it." I took the bundle and unwrapped it. It was a folded grey cloak. "Put it on," said Luccio in her quiet, steady voice. "And then every availab..
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You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then move on to the next.
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Jim Butcher |
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Ya te lo dije>> preventivos --senale--. Ahora si que lo he visto todo.
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Jim Butcher |
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Me and the Blue Beetle kick ass. In a four-cylinder kind of way, but it still gets kicked.
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Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine," Grimm said."
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difficult
possible
industry
impossible
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Jim Butcher |
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My dear cousin has a very odd relationship with fear -- though mostly she's too busy to be bothered with it.
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women-s-strength
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Jim Butcher |
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There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.
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courage
rise-up
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Jim Butcher |
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The desk sergeant wasn't the usual mustached old warhorse who I had run into before, but a greying matron with steely eyes who disapproved of me and my lifestyle in a single glance,
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Jim Butcher |
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I just wouldn't be safe from myself. I wouldn't be safe from the loathing I would feel, using a tool made of life's essence, its energy, to bring an end to life. Magic was more than just an energy source, like electricity or petroleum. It was power, true, but it was a lot of other things as well. It was all that was deepest and most powerful in nature, in the human heart and soul. The ways in which I applied it were crude and clumsy in comp..
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Jim Butcher |
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you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible.
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Jim Butcher |
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Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds." "Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when you swear." "You're right. Sorry. Holy shit," I breathed, "heckhounds."
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expletives
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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.
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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.
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pain
life
wisdom
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There are people who love you, Faith. Or who one day will. Even if you can't see them beside you, right here, right now, they're out there. But if you let the dark get into your eyes, you might never find them. So it's best to keep a little light with you, along the way.
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He grunted. "You're trivializing what getting out for a bit means to me, Harry. You're insulting my masculinity." "Bob," I said, "you're a skull. You don't have any masculinity to insult."
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Jim Butcher |
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Those who have such a family seldom realize how rare and precious it is.
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Didn't you read the owner's manual?" " ? See here, missy. I've been an etheric engineer since before you were born. I think I know how to handle a lift crystal." "Evidently you aren't bright enough to do so, if you cannot read. We provide those manuals and specifications and procedures for a reason, you know."
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reading
manuals
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You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.
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ingenuity
creativity
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If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would speak even more loudly about clearly of her life.
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friends
character
death
life
foes
honour
enemies
honor
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Not like those Dungeons and Dragons games. The real thing. He bought some of those tarot cards." She pronounced it like carrot. Amateurs."
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Jim Butcher |
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Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter."
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silence
foot-in-mouth
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what good is magic if it cannot be used to make a delicious cup of a fine beverage?
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What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around."
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Now hear me, brother," I said gently. "Cease your attempts to harm my humans. Depart this city. Do not come back." "Or else?" he asked. "There is nothing else," I replied calmly. "You will do these things. The only question is whether you will do them of your own will or if I must teach you how."
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I drew my pentacle into my fist, raised it like every vampire slayer you ever saw does it, and said, "Jesus Christ, lady. I just came here to talk."
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At five feet and small change, a hundred and not much, she didn't exactly look like a tough Chicago cop who could face down monsters and maniacs with equal nerve. Chicks like that aren't supposed to be blond or have a cute nose.
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Thank me when I save your life." "You've done that already," I said. "Back in the museum." "So we're even?" "Once you've made that swap, you don't keep counting, man," I said. "Drive safe."
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Translation," I said. "We got around her fair and square. She won't like it, but she'll accept it." "Oh yeah," Thomas muttered under his breath. "This isn't coming back to bite anyone in the ass later." --
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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.
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Jim Butcher |
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It was the same thing, resting in my grave. Peace. I wasn't going anywhere and it made me happy. If only I'd brought a book, my day would have been perfect.
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Jim Butcher |
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Bloody constraint," I told him. "For should you try to hide the girl from me, even in your heart, there shall I rake for her."
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Jim Butcher |
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You're such a pompous, arrogant, pretentious, chauvinistic, hopelessly old-fashioned, stupidly pigheaded
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Jim Butcher |
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Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.
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Jim Butcher |
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She could be a pain in the ass, but she was one gutsy chick. Her kids were lucky to have a mother like her. A lot of moms would say that they would die for their children. Charity had placed herself squarely in harm's way to do exactly that.
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My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.
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Jim Butcher |
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Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!
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Jim Butcher |
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A little kung fu, a little John Wayne, and a few casual threats.
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Jim Butcher |
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I will not live in a realm where calculations of power supersede justice and law - regardless of how inconvenient that may be to the Crown.
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law
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