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I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.
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You humans have the potential to be the most wonderful beings there are--if you can get past all these enormous stupid spots you seem to have in your hearts. It's not your fault. You just don't know how to work your hearts right yet. That's why there are dogs. I think it's nice to know your purpose.
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Dresden," she said, "I cannot stress to you enough how vital it is that we avoid general hostilities, even with a relatively small power." Translation: Don't start another war, Harry. "But," she continued, "we can afford to lose the paths through Winter even less." Translation: Unless you really have to."
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That was silly, to think that they would not love each other--but sometimes humans are slow to figure things out, because they are heart-stupid. You are, too. That's okay. Just get a dog. Dogs can teach you all kinds of things about your heart.
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make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is.
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Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him.
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self-respect
self-esteem
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Knowledge counters fear. It always has.
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Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations. I
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Magic came from life itself, from the interaction of nature and the elements, from the energy of all living beings, and especially of people.
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Harry Dresden, Winter Knight, Targets Slain, No Barbecues, Waterslides, or Fireworks Displays.
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See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.
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magic
science
physics
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Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves.
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You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep." He"
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Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don't tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders.
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I glanced at Mac as though to appeal for help. Mac ignored me. Mac doesn't take sides. Mac is wise.
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There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different. Magic
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Bad things kept happening to me. It was high fucking time I started happening to them. Maeve
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purple is my favorite color that isn't black, and
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As a race, we're an enormous bunch of idiots. We're more than capable of ignoring facts if the conclusions they lead to make us too uncomfortable. Or afraid.
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Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
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history
ignorance
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There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once. Rain
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People who ask questions and think about their faith are the last ones to embrace dogma--and the last to abandon their path once they've set out on it. I felt fairly sure that the Almighty, whatever name tag He had on at the moment, could handle a few questions from people sincerely looking for answers.
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If I could publish actual interviews with vampires--" "Sheesh, Susan. You're reading too much off the bestseller list. In"
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They get caught up in right and wrong. Or right and left. But none of that stuff matters if people aren't free." Titania"
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Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it. I
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They say screwy things, make odd choices which, in retrospect, they feel amazingly foolish for making.
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are dangerous. Wills are dangerous. You are heavily armed with both." Tavi"
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See, that's the tragedy of the human condition. No one wants to be corrupted by power when they set out to get it. They have good, even noble reasons for doing whatever it is they do. They don't want to misuse it, they don't want to abuse it, and they don't want to become vicious monsters. Good people, decent people, set out to take the high road, to pick up power without letting it change them or push them away from their ideals. But it ke..
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Shiro died. There was nothing pretty about it. There was no dignity to it. He'd been brutalized and savagely murdered - and he'd allowed it to happen to him in my place. But when he died, there was a small, contended smile on his face. Maybe the smile of someone who had run his course without wavering from it. Someone who had served something greater than himself. Who had given up his life willingly, if not gladly.
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faith
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Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." "Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on." Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?" "It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels." --
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You saved us," she said. "Of course I did," Rowl responded. "I am without flaw."
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He] stared at Rowl with flat eyes. Rowl yawned his unconcern. "If you wish to keep those eyes," he said pleasantly, "move them elsewhere."
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Summer and Winter, constantly chasing each other, wounding what the other heals and healing what the other wounds.
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You okay?" Fix asked her. "Have to be," she said."
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White for protection. And because they're the cheapest color at Wal-Mart. Hey, being a wizard doesn't make money grow on trees.
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I kicked him in the head with my rented formal shoes. My shoe went flying off, which I was pretty sure never happened to James Bond. The
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staff cutbacks that meant nurses were working their asses off to cover the basics and, as a result, were barely maintaining a white-knuckled grip on civility. Bottom line: she hated hospitals for the same reason everyone else did. If she was in a hospital, it meant one of two things. She'd been hurt. Or someone she loved had been hurt.
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People are likely to do the most ridiculously illogical things for the most incomprehensible of reasons.
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She held up her hand, palm up--another one of those gestures, their meanings forgotten by everyone except for long-term wackjobs like Dresden.
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I like her," Sanya rumbled in his deep, half-swallowed accent. "She is so tiny and fierce. I don't suppose she knows how to--" "Sanya," Michael said, his voice very firm. "We have talked about this." The dark-skinned Russian sighed and shrugged. "It could not hurt to ask." "Sanya." He lifted both hands in a gesture of surrender, grinning, and fell silent. The"
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Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.
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I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.
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You can be such an asshole, Dresden, I swear.
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Nipple erection on command--now that's method acting. Oh,
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