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Harry Dresden: Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally. (Jim Butcher)
Harry Dresden: But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are. View quote
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Harry Dresden: On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain. View quote
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Harry Dresden: I can't believe I'm about to say this. So think real careful about where this is coming from: Have you people ever considered talking when you've got a problem? View quote
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Harry Dresden: 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. View quote
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Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor. View quote
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Death is only frightening from the near side. View quote
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In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic. View quote
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Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher. View quote
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Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding! View quote
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In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan. (Jim Butcher)
Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas. View quote
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It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels. View quote
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You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor. View quote
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Tequila?" I asked him, skeptically. "Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne." "Champagne, tequila, what's the difference, so long as it'll lower her inhibitions?" Bob said. "Uh. I'm thinking it's going to get us a, um, sleazier result. View quote
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I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point. View quote
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I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one. View quote
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A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind. View quote
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If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward. (Jim Butcher)
We're always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down. View quote
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Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back? View quote
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Harry Dresden: I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family. View quote
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Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively. View quote
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