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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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Independence
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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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Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes.
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I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.
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The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
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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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My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.
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Thwart, I said. To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition. Sarissa said. It is today.
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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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Ease off the martyr throttle.
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There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear.
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Harry, Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, what you know about women, I could juggle.
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Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.
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Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.
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We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.
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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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If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.
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I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.
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You killed my dog! Get your affairs in order.
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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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When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.
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