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You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.
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We're all so damned fragile.
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We are not going to die. Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. We're not? No. And do you know why? He shook his head. Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. I hauled on the shirt even harder. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.
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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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I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
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