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There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Completely
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Thank God for wisecracks.
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Harry, Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, what you know about women, I could juggle.
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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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She studied my face for a long minute. Are you going to help my mom? It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?
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The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.
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Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?
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The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.
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Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.
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There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
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We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.
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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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It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.
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Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?
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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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