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It has become a custom among the Legions to promise one's fellows that no matter what happens, they will never lie cold upon the earth.
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the blow made her see stars. There was no time for astronomy in ground fighting, she thought,
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How are you going to talk to someone who has no idea?" Grimm said, nodding. "How can you explain something you can't find words for? How can you get someone else to understand something for which they have no frame of reference?"
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Raith smiled. "There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You were made to feel desire. I was made to use it against you. It is the natural cycle. Life and death. Mating and death. Predator and Prey." Raith leaned closer with each word, and brushed his lips against Murphy's throat as he spoke. "Born mortal...
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house-raith
lord-raith
dresden-files
jim-butcher
urban-fantasy
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When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better.
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Nothing is truly safe in this world--and that being the case, why worry about threats that have not yet appeared? Far wiser to make what preparations one could, face trouble as it arose, and be happy in the meantime.
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We're a civilized society, are we not?" Esterbrook blinked. "Since when, miss? We're a democracy." "Just what I mean. We have dispensed with violence as a means of governing ourselves, have we not?" "The heart of democracy is violence, Miss Tagwynn," Esterbrook said. "In order to decide what to do, we take a count of everyone for and against it, and then do whatever the larger side wishes to do. We're having a symbolic battle, its outcome d..
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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 that an elephant was like a snake. The second man touched its leg and claimed that an elephant was like a tree. The third man touched its tail, and claimed that the elephant was like a slender rope.
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That's why black magic is so easy--it comes from lust, from fear and anger, from things that are easy to feed and make grow.
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My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour. It came from my love of a good steak, from the way I would sometimes cry at a good movie or a moving symphony. From my life. From the hope that I could make things better for someone else, if not always for me.
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wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.
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I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead."
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Good man always stands against that.
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Whatever the reason, I'm happy to remember the time we had.
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I'll be patient," I said. "But not forever."
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You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.
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I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.
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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. You see what I mean?"
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it would only take one dummy to kill us all, and we had four hundred and ninety-nine to spare.
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Jim Butcher |
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Granted, I think it would have been more fun to be Colossus than Shadowcat.
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What matters is the success or failure of your will. Your will to overcome human weakness. Your will to work. To learn. I will have no shirkers here, boy.
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So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either."
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You need some time in a quiet place, boss. Unkink your brain's do. Mellow your vibe." "Thank you, Doctor Fraud,"
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The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.
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humor
love
michael-carpenter
harry-dresden
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You can tell a great deal about a person by looking at the people who share his life." Isana"
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What could I do? What do you do to make up for failing everyone in your life? How do you make it right? How do you apologize for hideous things you never intended to happen?
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Time to start doing," I whispered."
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The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault. My
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Later. Bad habit to get into," Thomas said. "Life's too short."
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Stupid's everywhere, every day.
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It's a shadelight. Some of my men put one up whenever I lose a member of the crew. To light his shade's way back to his bunk, so he can rest.
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But mostly, it ends badly when wizards try to stay too close to their kin.
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I look at things and think about them,' Folly replied. 'And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply.
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But 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.
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HOW CAN YOU KNOW THIS?" the Voice demanded. "I look at things and think about them," Folly replied. "And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply."
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studying
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Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day.
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passion
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Because it needs to be said," she murmured. "Because that's what happened. You deserve to know that."
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The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold.
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The heart of democracy is violence, Miss Tagwynn," Esterbrook said. "In order to decide what to do, we take a count of everyone for and against it, and then do whatever the larger side wishes to do. We're having a symbolic battle, its outcome decided by simple numbers. It saves us time and no end of trouble counting actual bodies--but don't mistake it for anything but ritualized violence. And every few years, if the person we elected doesn'..
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I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern." A"
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Jim Butcher |
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From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before.
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Jim Butcher |
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I know. It makes my head hurt too.
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Jim Butcher |
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But I'd never been very good at expressing myself verbally.
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It's another in a long list of things that Martians hardly ever think about: Almost any woman knows that almost any man is stronger than she is. Oh, men know they're stronger, but they seldom actually stop to think through the implications of that simple reality--implications that are both unnerving and virtually omnipresent, if you aren't a Martian. You think about life differently when you know that half the people you see have the physic..
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