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I had three days to screw over Nicodemus Archleone and his crew and get this thing out of my head, without getting myself or my friend killed while I did it.
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Fuck a Smurf and call him Gimpy, is that who I think it is?
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Look, people go on and on about how size isn't everything, and how the bigger they are, the harder they fall, but the people who say that probably haven't ever faced down a charging demon-bear so big it should have been on a drive-in movie screen.
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but once you put all the stupid things I do aside, I'm really not all that interesting. I like reading, staying home, going on walks with my dog--it's like I'm already a retiree. Who wants to hear about that? Especially when I would have to scream it over the music to which no one dances.
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They're always too strong. There's always more of them, and they're always too strong.
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Beards grow out so fast that if you shave every day, there isn't much of a window for anyone to use them against you--and shaved stubble is too diffuse to make a decent channel anyway.
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I'm getting my ass kicked by tiny faeries!" I shouted back, fumbling to start the car. "They've got my freaking number!" "Run away!" Bob giggled. "Run away! Tiny faeries!" growled in frustration and popped the Redcap's hat down over Bob. "Stop being a jerk. This is serious." Bob's voice was only barely muffled. It sounded like he couldn't breathe. "Serious! Tiny! Faeries! The m-m- mighty wizard Dresden!"
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The Denarians want to disrupt civilization, and with the Archive under their control, they could do it. Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry." --
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I didn't follow her right away. She didn't look back. Stab. Twist. God, I love being a wizard.
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How long do I have to take care of it?" I asked. "SOON." "Soon? How soon is soon? What do you mean, soon?"
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A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.
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to whom much is given, much is required.
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Vadderung grinned. "I've never heard it phrased quite like that, but it's accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it's a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future."
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I am pure of heart and mind," I told her. "I cannot be corrupted."
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Whatever," I said. "It's getting cloying in here. Are we there yet?" He smiled. "Jerk." "Wuss." "Jackass." "Pansy." "Philistine." "Dandysprat." "Butthead." "Whiner ..."
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He's a rather brilliant defensive tactician," Grimm said. "I agree," Bayard said. "The problem is that he's an inept defensive strategist."
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We wizards are terrific at brooding.
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He sees the color blue," the etherealist said. "But his color blue. Not yours."
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Three blind men were shown an elephant. They touched it with their hands to determine what the creature was. The first man felt the trunk, and claimed the elephant was like a snake. The second man touched its leg and claimed the elephant was like a tree. The third man touched its tail, and claimed that the elephant was like a slender rope." I nodded. "Oh, I get it. All of them were right. All of them were wrong. They couldn't get the whole..
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They'd paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. Maybe it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of these gorillas who has learned to paint. The results would have been of similar quality, and they could have paid in fresh produce.
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Look, Spanky," I said to Sharkface. "I'm a little busy to be tussling with every random weirdo who is insecure about his junk. Otherwise I would just love to smash you with a beer bottle, kick you in the balls, throw you out through the saloon doors, the whole bit. Why don't you have your people contact my people, and we can do this maybe next week?" "Next week is your self-deprecation awareness seminar," Thomas said. I snapped my fingers. ..
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What's the point in answering, Warden? It's obvious that you've already tried and convicted me. If I tell you I am involved, you will believe me guilty. If I tell you I am not involved, you will believe me guilty. The only thing I can do is deny you your precious moral justification." She lifted a hand to her lips and pantomimed turning a key and throwing it away."
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I do magic, in one form or another, and that's pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days.
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Crap," I gasped. "I am not going to be known as the wizard who used his death curse thanks to a bunch of bitty nail guns."
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Strategy and tactics, discipline and protocol are necessary, but they're just the beginning. You have to know people, Byron. How they think, what motivates them. Watch. Learn.
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We all have our demons.
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Names are unique sounds and cadences of words that are attached to one specific individual-sort of like a kind of theme music.
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There was no milk in the icebox, and I wasn't pouring Coke onto breakfast cereal. That would just be odd.
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I was staring into a mirror, and I didn't like what I saw there.
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Faith in what?" "That things will unfold as they are meant to," Forthill said. "That even in the face of an immediate ugliness, the greater picture will resolve into something all the more beautiful."
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The warehouse was a part of the wharves down at the lakeside, and even the chill waters of Lake Michigan were warmer than usual. They filled the air with more than the average water-scent of mud and mildew and eau de dead fishy.
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She was," Forthill corrected her, "if only for a time. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while."
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Righteous. The real deal. He's honest, loyal, faithful. He lives his ideals. It gives him power.
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I longed for my bed. I longed for sleep.
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It's dark, close, cold, and intensely creepy down there. The fact that it was inhabited by things that had no love for mankind and potential radioactivity to boot didn't do much to boost its tourism industry.
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Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now."
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The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight--not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable.
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now, I still didn't have enough money to pay for all the repairs, and I had set out to fix the door on my own. I hadn't framed it very well, but I try to think positive: The new door was arguably even more secure than the old one--now you could barely get the damned thing open even when it wasn't locked.
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I can't be under arrest right now," I said back to him. "I don't have the time."
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Sometimes, son," Count Calderon said, "you have to acknowledge that your future is in someone else's hands."
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You don't gain knowledge without a little pain.
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Lord," Michael said. "We walk into darkness now. Our enemies will surround us. Please help to make us strong enough to do what needs to be done. Amen."
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I respected the man. It didn't mean that I wouldn't pants him on national television if I got the opportunity,
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Butters's voice turned bitter. "Them or us, choose a side?" "It's not about taking sides," Karrin said. "It's about knowing yourself. About understanding why you make the choices you do. Once you know that, you know where to walk, too."
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