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Andi's eyes widened. "Bob. . .is it really him?" "Yes, but he works for the bad guys now," Bob said. "It's probably safest to shoot him."
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bob-the-skull
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Every relationship ended. Sometimes it ended voluntarily with a break-up or an affair. Sometimes it ended with death. Only the lucky ones died together. Everyone else had to suffer through being a survivor. And she hated that term most of all.
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It's easy to do the right thing when it doesn't cost you. Not as easy to do the right thing when your back is to the wall." Fitz"
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Sanya," I said. "Who did I get cast as?" "Sam," Sanya said. I blinked at him. "Not . . . Oh, for crying out loud, it was perfectly obvious who I should have been." Sanya shrugged. "It was no contest. They gave Gandalf to your godmother. You got Sam." He started to leave and then paused. "Harry. You have read the books as well, yes?" "Sure," I said. "Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale," Sanya said. "That he faced far greate..
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but age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.
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If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.
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I've often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola?) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo.
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several bulging bookshelves which I really will organize one day.
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Mathematically, maybe," I said. "But trust isn't one of those things that lends itself well to math." "Sure it does," Bob said. "You trust somebody, they betray you, you get a negative value. You never trust, they can never disappoint you, you break even."
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a man glided out of the limo. He was tall, pale as a statue. Sable hair fell in tousled curls to his shoulders. He was dressed in a pair of opalescent butterfly wings that rose from his shoulders, fastened to him by some mysterious mechanism. He wore white leather gloves, their gauntlet cuffs decorated in winding silver designs, and similar designs were set around his calves, down to his sandals. At his side hung a sword, delicately made, t..
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Murphyonic?" "Sure," Butters said. "You exude a Murphyonic field. Anything that can go wrong does."
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A tumbleweed went rolling by in the street. I'm not even kidding. An actual, literal tumbleweed. Man, Oklahoma.
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I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
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vanity
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He smiled crookedly. "I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one."
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that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.
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He had no frame of reference, and couldn't read--most faeries were studiously averse to print.
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Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic, and they don't need a special effects budget to do it, either.
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Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person."
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If I'd realized how rabid he was to catch me slipping, I wouldn't have added more fuel to his fire by hitting him in the mouth. Okay. I probably still would have hit him in the mouth. But I wouldn't have done it quite so hard.
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Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine.
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I even heard that they can bring people back from the dead." "Jesus," Butter swore. "I kinda doubt they had anything to do with that one." "No, no, I meant --" "I know what you meant. t was a joke, Butters."
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I'll talk you through," Kincaid said. "Dresden, better take her gun and cover us." "Hey," I said. "I'm in charge here. Kincaid, talk her through it. Murphy, give me your gun so I can cover you."
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So once again, let me be perfectly clear. If anything happens to Murphy and I even *think* you had a hand in it, fuck right and wrong. If you touch her, I'm declaring war on you.
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His mind is strange," came Varg's rumbling voice, "but capable."
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There's always a choice," I said. "That's the thing, man. There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice." --
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The old man's staff was shorter and thicker than mine, but the carved sigils and formulae on it were noticeably similar, and the texture and color of the wood was identical.
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now, young man. That's no small thing,
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All you have to do is to hold them until the cops get here, and then you can bleed to death in peace. Or get to a doctor. Whichever hurts less.
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A good man, almost by definition, would seriously question any decisions he made that led to such terrible consequences for others. Especially if those others trusted him.
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In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game.
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Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire.
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I hope you're one of the good guys, Mr. Dresden. We really need a good guy. I
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Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!
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Do you want to be my dad?
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Ah, yes, a savage. Of the famous Chromotonsorial Cahokian Goth tribe.
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One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight - Gard
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There are some basic tenets that ninety-nine percent of all Wiccans follow, but at its core the faith is all about individual freedom. Wiccans believe that as long as you aren't hurting anyone else by doing it, you should be free to act and worship in whatever way you'd like.
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You're with me today. I need someone to watch my back. Maybe to help me eat a hot dog later.
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Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away. My
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.
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Death isn't something anyone likes to think about, but the fact is that you can't get out of it. No matter what you do, how much you exercise, how religiously you diet, or meditate, or pray, or how much money you donate to your church, there is a single hard, cold fact that faces everyone on earth: One day it's going to be over. One day the sun will rise, the world will turn, people will go about their daily routines--only you won't be in i..
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The history of the human race demonstrates very convincingly that free speech is the exception to the human condition, not the rule. For millennia, those who spoke out were imprisoned or killed. Hell, you could say something that wasn't even subversive, just inept and stupid, and be destroyed for committing the crime of Make no mistake. What we have today is a level of freedom and self-determination on a scale unparalleled in the history o..
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It seemed like people could go one of two ways: Either freak out and start rioting, or they actually act like human beings in trouble out to, and look out for one another. When LA blacked out, there had been big time rioting. In New York, people had pulled together.
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