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I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.
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We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.
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Here there be monster. Bob whispered, half hysterically. Run! Run already!
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Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?
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The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.
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Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.
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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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I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick.
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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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Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.
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...the Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?
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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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Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.
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It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. And I, Harry Dresden, am that man, I stated.
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No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call hard but necessary for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.
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