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We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.
Jim Butcher
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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Here there be monster. Bob whispered, half hysterically. Run! Run already!
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Isana laughed. And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition? The lady smiled. That's a question rarely asked here at court. And why is that? Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.
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If you shoot, I will kill her before I die. Yes, Kitai said in a patient tone. Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.
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