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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?

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Harry, Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, what you know about women, I could juggle.
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Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.
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Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.
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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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We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.
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You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.
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When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic, I said. When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.
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I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.
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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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If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
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You think this is going to work? This peaceful summit thing?” “Sure,” I said. After a second, I added, “Probably.” “Probably?” “Maybe,” I said. “We’re down to maybe now?” I shrugged. “We’ll see.
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I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.
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Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.
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Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.
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But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, BOO!
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I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.
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Apocalypse is a frame of mind. [Nicodemus] said then. A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.
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Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.
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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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