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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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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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No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call hard but necessary for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.
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My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.
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When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
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Do you want your blood to stay where it is sochar-lar? Tavi lifted both eyebrows at the unfamiliar word, and glanced at Varg. Monkey, Varg supplied, in Aleran. And male-child. He called me monkey boy? Tavi asked.
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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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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
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We are not going to die. Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. We're not? No. And do you know why? He shook his head. Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. I hauled on the shirt even harder. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.
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Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?
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Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.
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If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment, Murphy interrupted, I will break your arm in eleven places.
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And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.
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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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Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
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Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.
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I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.
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