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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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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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I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.
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Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
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Ease off the martyr throttle.
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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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Oh, I get it, I said. You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?
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Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
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Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.
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You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
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I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!
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The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.
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Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?
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Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.
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Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise.
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Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.
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An inferior sense of smell, Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.
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Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.
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When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
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I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles
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The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.
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