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Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return. (Jim Butcher)
I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family. View quote
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I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry. View quote
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Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not. View quote
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Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain. View quote
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You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame." Sanya to Dresden. View quote
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You think this is going to work? This peaceful summit thing?” "Sure,” I said. After a second, I added, "Probably.” "Probably?” "Maybe,” I said. "We're down to maybe now?” I shrugged. "We'll see. View quote
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Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope. View quote
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I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album. View quote
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Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way. View quote
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One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight. (Jim Butcher)
At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips. View quote
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You don't have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you. View quote
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All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action. View quote
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Do you want your blood to stay where it is sochar-lar?" Tavi lifted both eyebrows at the unfamiliar word, and glanced at Varg. "Monkey," Varg supplied, in Aleran. "And male-child." "He called me monkey boy?" Tavi asked. View quote
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This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight. View quote
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Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place. View quote
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Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, "you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.” "Well,” I said, "if you're going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn't it. View quote
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I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing. View quote
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Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful-but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living. View quote
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Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first. (Jim Butcher)
Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else. View quote
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I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows. View quote
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I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone. View quote
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It rained toads the day the White Council came to town. View quote
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