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A more capable cat is never impressed by a less capable cat.
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Jim Butcher |
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He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, "You are an untidy person."
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insults
dresden-files
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Jim Butcher |
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This thing was power from the Outside, and I was a grain of sand to its oncoming tide. But you know what? That grain of sand might be the last remnant of what had once been a mountain, but that which it is, it is. The tide comes and the tide goes. Let it hammer the grain of sand as it may. Let lofty mountains fear the slow, constant assault of the waters. Let the valleys shudder at the pitiless advance of ice. Let continents drown beneath t..
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Jim Butcher |
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Are you serious? What the hell does a stunt double do in a porno flick?" Jake waved a hand vaguely toward his belt. "Extreme close-ups." "Uh. What?" "Historically speaking, it doesn't happen often. Especially what with Viagra now. But it isn't unknown for a director to bring in a double for the close of a scene, if the actor is having trouble finishing." I blinked. "He thought I was a stunt penis?" Jake laughed at my reaction. "Man. You are..
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Jim Butcher |
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Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.
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Jim Butcher |
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The dead don't need justice. That's for those of us who are left looking down at the remains.
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Jim Butcher |
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I hadn't gotten beaten up twice, shot, and nearly strangled to get taken out by a misguided werewolf bitch.
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Jim Butcher |
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There was a roar from the shadow-tiger mask around the Harley, and Murphy swept up alongside the boat. I leapt down onto the back of the bike in a single smooth motion, which I felt was cool, and landed with too much of my weight on my genitals, which I felt was not.
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Jim Butcher |
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I'm a wizard. That means I have power, and power and responsibility go hand in hand.
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Jim Butcher |
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Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.
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nightmares
terrible-things
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Jim Butcher |
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I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.
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Jim Butcher |
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The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga
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Jim Butcher |
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Tonight you will be visited by three spirits. The ghosts of indictment past, present, and future. They will teach you the true meaning of 'you are still a scumbag criminal.
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Jim Butcher |
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Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?
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Jim Butcher |
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Murphy caught that arm and continued the motion, using her own body as a fulcrum in a classic hip throw - except that Binder was facing in the opposite direction than usual for that technique. You could hear his arm come out of its socket fifty feet away. And he hit the gravel face-first. Binder got extra points for brains in my book, after that: he lay still and didn't put up a struggle as Murphy dragged his wrists behind his back and cu..
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humourous
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Jim Butcher |
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He stared at me. "Wh-what did you say?" "A stuffed animal, man!" I roared at him. "Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!"
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Jim Butcher |
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34be5c5
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There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.
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Jim Butcher |
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6409445
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the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.
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Jim Butcher |
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How long have you been a Sidhe-sicle?
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Jim Butcher |
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Or maybe this wasn't a human-faerie translation problem at all. Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that 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 subtex..
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men-and-women
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Jim Butcher |
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Harry, life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick of things, sometimes it's hard for us to tell. You didn't do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn't make it right - but it doesn't make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become.
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free-will
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Jim Butcher |
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You're a cop. I need a doughnut.
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humor
stereotype
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Jim Butcher |
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Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.
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Jim Butcher |
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I took a big dose of Tylenol the original, since I didn't have my Tylenol 3 or its lesser-known, short-lived cousin, Tylenol Two: The Pain Strikes Back.
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Empty knight, Harry! Morgan? Morgan? What's wrong with your head?" Thomas shrugged. "I don't think he did it." Morgan wouldn't cross the street to piss on you if you were on fire!" Thomas growled, "He's finally getting his comeuppance. Why should you lift a finger?"
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morgan
thomas
turn-coat
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Jim Butcher |
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This is scary." "And we're doing it anyway," I said. "That makes us brave, right?" "If we get away with it," I said. "If we don't, it just makes us stupid."
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Jim Butcher |
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I hate it when the real world ignores a perfectly logical, rational assumption.
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Jim Butcher |
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My wallet was getting even more anorexic than usual. At this rate I wouldn't be able to afford to protect mankind from the perils of black magic. Hells bells, that would be really embarrassing.
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Jim Butcher |
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I sidestepped the vampire's rush, and drove my half of the former blasting rod down at its back, Buffy-like. Maybe it works better on television.
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vampires
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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No matter where you go, there you are. [- Uriel to Harry Dresden]
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uriel
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Jim Butcher |
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One does not simply walk into Mordor--except that was exactly what everyone in the story did anyway.)
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lotr
mordor
lord-of-the-rings
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Jim Butcher |
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What's with that?" Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. "Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie?"
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jurassic-park
waldo-butters
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Jim Butcher |
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He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naivete and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.
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Jim Butcher |
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I... briefly wondered why I kept running into repeat uses of various locations around town. This wasn't the first time I'd dealt with the bad guys choosing to reuse a location different bad guys had used before them. Maybe there was a Villainous Time-share Association. Maybe my life was actually a basic-cable television show, and they couldn't afford to spend money on new sets all the time.
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Jim Butcher |
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Sir," said the guard from behind me. "I'd appreciate it if you left your club here." I paused and looked over my shoulder, He had a gun. His hand wasn't exactly resting on it, but he'd tucked his thumb into his belt about half an inch away. "It isn't a club," I said calmly. "It's a walking stick." "Six feet long." "It's traditional Ozark folk art." "With dents and nicks all over it." I thought about it for a second. "I'm insecure?" "Get a b..
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humourous
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Jim Butcher |
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Rip her dress off!" Bob shouted. Bob the Skull takes paperback romances very seriously. The next page turned so quickly that he tore the paper a little. Bob is even harder on books than I am. "That's what I'm talking about!" Bob hollered, as more pages turned."
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Jim Butcher |
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You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.
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Jim Butcher |
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Butters blinked at looked at Thomas. "My God," he said. "You've been shot." Thomas hooked a thumb at Butters. "Check out Dr. Marcus Welby, MD, here." "I'd have gone with Doogie Howser, maybe," I said. "Split the difference at McCoy?" Thomas asked. "Perfect."
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Jim Butcher |
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Someone is out there," I said. "Someone who has been manipulating the events. Playing puppet master, stirring the pot, stacking the deck - " "Mixing metaphors?" Thomas suggested."
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Jim Butcher |
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It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.
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truth
horror
monsters
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Jim Butcher |
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Technically,' I said, "I'm not breaking any of the Laws of Magic. I'm not robbing you of your will, so I'm clear of the Fourth Law. And you didn't get loose, so I'm clear of the Seventh Law. The Council can bite me.' The bone ridges above Chauncy's eyes twitched. 'Surely, that is merely a colorful euphemism, rather than a statement of desire.' 'It is."
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magic
humor
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Jim Butcher |
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Booya!" I drunkenly howled from the ground. I choked a little on the dust as I staggered back to my feet, my heart pounding, my whole body alive with strain and adrenaline. I stabbed a pointing finger toward the impact crater. "That's right! just rocked your ? Harry fucking Dresden! who!"
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Jim Butcher |
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Where germs go?" "Sunrise," I said. "Poof." Butter's voice sounded bewildered. "Vampire germs?" "The tiny capes are a dead giveaway."
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Jim Butcher |
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I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire." "Not just a vampire," I said, "a cheesy vampire. Do you think they got the point?" --
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Jim Butcher |