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Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!
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Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.
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Thank God for wisecracks.
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Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.
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...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.
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Go back,” he said. “Can’t. Stand aside?” “Can’t.” “So it’s like that?” I said. Fix exhaled. Then he nodded. “Yeah.” And for the first time in a decade the Winter Knight and Summer Knight went to war.
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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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Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher
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Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead, I said solemnly, and frosting of white.
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Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?
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