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There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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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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You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
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Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.
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Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.
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...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher
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Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.
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But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, BOO!
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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
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Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.
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Better safe than exsanguinated.
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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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And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos
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Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.
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Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden
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I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.
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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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Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.
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Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.
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He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan
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Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.
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