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Thank God for wisecracks.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore. Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, Eek.
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Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.
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Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.
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Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too. It's cute, I whispered to Murphy. He has a teddy Glock.
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And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.
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...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.
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Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
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It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.
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Pretty please. With sugar.
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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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Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.
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You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.
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Mab turned back to me and eyed me up and down. She quirked one eyebrow, very slightly, somehow conveying layers of disapproval toward multiple aspects of my appearance, conduct, and situation, and said, 'Finally.' 'There’s been a lot on my mind,' I replied. 'It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten,' Queen Mab replied. 'Improve your mind.'
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Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
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No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.
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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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We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.
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I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.
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Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
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You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
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