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You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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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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I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.
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It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.
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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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Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.
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My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?
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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.
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Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
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Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
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Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
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Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help. If you have not, then believe you me, it can scare the bejeezus out of you.
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Marcone's scum... But he's his own scum.
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