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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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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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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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You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.
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The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.
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Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.
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There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.
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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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Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
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Demonreach only wants Harry to see what's going on. Why doesn't it just marry him? Thomas muttered under his breath. It sort of did, I said. My brother the... geosexual?
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You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
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We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.
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Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.
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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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The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.
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Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some. Ebenezar tsked. Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.
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When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.
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I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.
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Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.
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Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.
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If you shoot, I will kill her before I die. Yes, Kitai said in a patient tone. Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.
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