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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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Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.
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It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
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I still can't believe, Michael said, sotto voce, that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.
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I admit, Morgan said with another withering look, it's no donut.
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A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.
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You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.
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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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When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.
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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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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.
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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
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I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.
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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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One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.
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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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No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.
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Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
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There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, What's up, boss? Evil's afoot. Well, sure, Bob said, because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.
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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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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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