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576f498
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I made a sandwich out of things. I'm an American. We can eat anything as long as it's between two pieces of bread.
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sandwich
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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072a2f3
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beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy.
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Jim Butcher |
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89ebb5b
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It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated."
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laugh-at-yourself
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Jim Butcher |
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b7d42f8
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The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.
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decisions
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Jim Butcher |
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f8b23b2
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I grunted. "She's not a delicate princess," I said. "She's a warrior. Warriors have enemies. Sometimes warriors get hurt." I felt my jaws clench. "And then their friends even things up."
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skin-game
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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579c6ea
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Parkour," I panted. "Bitch."
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Jim Butcher |
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fed2c5c
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If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.
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Jim Butcher |
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955fb8b
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He's being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven," Thomas said. "I figured he couldn't jigger his way out of a bunch of steel, and it would give him something to think about before we start asking questions." "That's an awful thing to do to one of the Little Folk, man," I said. "I'm planning to start making a pie in front of him." "Nice." "Thank you."
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Jim Butcher |
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428ba8b
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Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.
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change
fire
dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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000b033
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I slammed the water off hard enough to make it clack, got out of the shower, dried, and started getting dressed in a fresh set of secondhand clothes. "Why do you wear those?" asked Lacuna. I jumped, stumbled, and shouted half of a word to a spell, but since I was only halfway done putting on my underwear, I mostly just fell on my naked ass. "Gah!" I said. "Don't do that!" My miniature captive came to the edge of the dresser and peered dow..
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Jim Butcher |
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aa995cb
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The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.
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good-times
shindig
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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65ab45b
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She's going to do nothing but try to trick information out of me that I shouldn't be giving her, Mac," I said. "Ungh," Mac agreed. "Why did I say yes?" Mac shrugged. "She's pretty," I said. "Smart. Sexy." "Ungh." "Any red-blooded man would have done the same thing." "Hngh," Mac snorted. "Well. Maybe not you." Mac smiled a bit, mollified. "Still. It's going to make trouble for me. I must be crazy to go for someone like that." I picked up my ..
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Jim Butcher |
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b8e9d48
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Never let it be said that Harry Dresden is afraid of a dried, dead bug. Creepy or not, I wasn't going to let it ruin my concentration. So I scooped it up with the corner of the phone book and popped it into the middle drawer of my desk. Out of sight, out of mind. So I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.
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Jim Butcher |
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d3151aa
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I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.
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Jim Butcher |
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483bd2e
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Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
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humor
dresdenish
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Jim Butcher |
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029e15f
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You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
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planning
getting-started
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Jim Butcher |
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a421bd3
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But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, "BOO!"
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Jim Butcher |
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198b0bf
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I'd had a key to the marina's locks at one time, but I'd lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab's bed. (My life. Hell's bells.)
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humor
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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35de7f5
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Michael half-smiled. "The Lord will never give you a burden bigger than your shoulders can bear, Harry. All we can do is face what comes and have faith." I gave him a sour glance. "I need to get myself some bigger shoulders, then. Someone in accounting must have made a mistake."
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harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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9482bef
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Uh, the Council," I said. "Big shock, they aren't helping." Murphy looked like she might be asleep, but she snorted. "So we're on our own." Yeah." Good. It's more familiar."
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humor
karrin-murphy
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Jim Butcher |
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54e8564
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Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?" Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out."
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funny
harry
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Jim Butcher |
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be9add6
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I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.
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humor
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Jim Butcher |
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d942711
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I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me.
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Jim Butcher |
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83f114f
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They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on .
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Jim Butcher |
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017fda5
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Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.
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Jim Butcher |
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e221e42
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Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.
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handsome
incubus
stalking
vampire
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Jim Butcher |
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a5b8192
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when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language. .......When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversion, we're having a conversatio..
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men
women
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Jim Butcher |
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a21a4d5
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Erlking," I told her. "Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me." "Why?" she asked. "Well. I met him," I said."
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Jim Butcher |
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e29eb71
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Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies." "You, may be," Thomas said, sneering. "I'm his thug. I'm way higher than a flunky." "You are high if you think I'm taking any orders from you," Molly said tartly."
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thomas-raith
molly-carpenter
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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771560b
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It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.
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Jim Butcher |
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f881a07
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It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.
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michael-carpenter
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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2228fc2
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I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd settle for knowing what her voice sounded like." I put a hand on her shoulder. "Trite but true--you don't know what you have until it's gone. People change. The world changes. And sooner or later you lose people you care about. If you don't mind some advice from someone who doesn't know much about families, I can tell you this: Don't take yours f..
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life
karrin-murphy
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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b379b4b
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I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.
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Jim Butcher |
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535cd83
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Answer my question, Dresden,' Nicodemus growled. 'What is that?' 'A precaution against getting stuck in deep snow,' I said. 'He's training to be a Saint Bernard.' 'Excuse me?' Nicodemus said. I mimed covering one of Mouse's ears with my hand and stage-whispered, 'Don't tell him that they don't actually carry kegs of booze on their collars. Break his little heart.
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Jim Butcher |
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1f232d2
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Souls," I said. "I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence just this body? Is there really something more? Do I really have a soul?" Uriel's smile blossomed again. "You've got it backward, Harry," he said. "You a soul. You a body." --
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Jim Butcher |
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e54f9bd
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Hey," He croaked. "You. Arrogant bitch ghost." "I'm not really into this whole hero thing," Mort said. "Don't have the temperament for it. Don't know a lot about the villain side of the equation, either." He planted his feet,facing the Corpsetaker squarely, his hands clenched into fist at his side. "But it seems to me, you half-wit, that you probably shouldn't have left a freaking ectomancer a pit full of wraiths to play with."
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Jim Butcher |
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971c0b6
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I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.
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Jim Butcher |
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4d71864
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Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.
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philosophical
optimism
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Jim Butcher |
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d901012
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Tiny," Sanya rumbled to Michael, clenching a demonstrative fist. "But ."
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humour
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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e0d0cbd
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Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The First Lord stared at her for a moment, his eyes cold. Then he spoke in a very quiet, precise, measured voice. "I look out my window each day. I look out my window at people who live and breathe. At people who have not been devoured by civil war. At people who have not been ravaged by disease. At people who have not starved to death, who have not been ha..
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moral-decisions
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Jim Butcher |
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5f77d0f
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She looked up at me with a polite smile, her dark hair long and appealing...I liked the smile. Maybe I didn't look like a beaten-up bum. Maybe on me it just looked ruggedly determined. "I'm sorry, sir," she said, "but the addiction counseling center is on twenty-six." Sigh."
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dresdenish
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Jim Butcher |
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925e70d
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People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.
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Jim Butcher |
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428a8d8
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Thank God for imminent doomsday.
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humor
doomsday
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Jim Butcher |
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a9a8384
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This is a place of learning where very few learn anything of value. That you, who have courage and intelligence, are held in contempt by most of your kind here because you have no sorcery... I have seen you protect others, though they consider you to be weaker than they. I have seen a very few decent people, like the boy we took from the tower. I have seen women trade pleasure for coin to feed their children, and others do the same so that ..
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inspirational
insightful
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Jim Butcher |