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Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly,” I said. “Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking.” She sniffed. “This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It’s okay to like both.” “Blasphemy and lies,” I said.
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I mean it, I said. You're in danger. Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.
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There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.
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If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.
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Isana laughed. And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition? The lady smiled. That's a question rarely asked here at court. And why is that? Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.
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He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.
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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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I know how you feel, I said. You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.
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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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Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
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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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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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Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.
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An inferior sense of smell, Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.
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I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.
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The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
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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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So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare somewhere nearby.
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Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead, I said solemnly, and frosting of white.
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I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
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