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You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.
Jim Butcher
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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear.
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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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Karrin, eh? Thomas asked. I nodded. She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different. Isn't she Catholic? Thomas asked. Don't they have a guy?
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If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.
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A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.
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Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
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It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should beāeven if it isn't what you expected.
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It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.
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You're in America now, I said. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.
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Tavi grinned. Are you with me? The plan is insane, Ehren said. YOU are insane. He looked around the inside of the tent. I'll need some pants.
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Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you
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...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.
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Pansy, Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.
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It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.
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Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
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There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.
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The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.
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I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.
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Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?
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Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.
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