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Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Love this job, Sanya murmured. Just love it. I need to challenge more people to duels, Thomas said in agreement. Men are pigs, Murphy said. Amen, said Molly. Lea gave me a prim look and said, I've not sacrificed a holy virgin in ages.
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Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?
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She studied my face for a long minute. Are you going to help my mom? It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?
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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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Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.
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Here there be monster. Bob whispered, half hysterically. Run! Run already!
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Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.
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You killed my dog! Get your affairs in order.
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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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Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise.
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Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.
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I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.
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Pretty please. With sugar.
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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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Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.
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Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.
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Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?
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