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Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.
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He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.
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Troubleshooters?" Michael asked. "When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.
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There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear....
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The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.
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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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Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that.
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Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry—" Assault formation!
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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
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Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes.
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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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There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.
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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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Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.
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It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.
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Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow. You? A Princess Bride quote? I croaked. What is that? she asked.
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The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
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Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.
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All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.
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Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.
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Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.
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The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.
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In McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.
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The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.
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Souls, I said. I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence just this body? Is there really something more? Do I really have a soul?Uriel's smile blossomed again. You've got it backward, Harry, he said. You are a soul. You have a body.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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October 26, 1971
(age 52)
Bio:
Jim Butcher is a New York Times best selling author best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He is also the author of the Codex Alera series, and the Cinder Spires series.
Known for:
Storm Front (2000)
The Aeronaut's Windlass (2015)
Skin Game (2014)
Fool Moon (2001)
Cold Days (2012)
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