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You're a cop. I need a doughnut.
Jim Butcher
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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.
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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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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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Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?
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Marcone's scum... But he's his own scum.
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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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I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.
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Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?
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There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.
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The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.
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I'm brilliant as well as skilled, he said modestly. It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.
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