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Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether. (Jim Butcher)
Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now. View quote
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Harry Dresden: Maybe it wasn't anything I'd done. Maybe the monsters had gone on strike. Yeah right. View quote
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Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different. View quote
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See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else. View quote
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Harry Dresden: Dresden Taxidermy. You snuff it, we'll stuff it. View quote
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Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy! View quote
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How long have you been a Wiccan?' 'A what?' 'A pagan. A witch.' 'I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.' Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?' 'Wizard has a Z' He looked at me blankly. 'No one appreciates me.' I muttered. View quote
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‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it. View quote
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You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast. View quote
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I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. (Jim Butcher)
Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in. View quote
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Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little. View quote
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There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times. View quote
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There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now. View quote
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Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust. View quote
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I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary. View quote
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Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. "She was possessed? View quote
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The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that. View quote
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I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse. View quote
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I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards. (Jim Butcher)
Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment. View quote
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Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence. View quote
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Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone. View quote
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Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore." Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek. View quote
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