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The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.

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That's the problem with you nearly immortal types, I said. You couldn't spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

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The door burst open. Murphy came through it, her eyes living flames of azure blue, her hair a golden coronet around her. She held a blazing sword in her hand and she shone so bright and beautiful and terrifying in her anger that it was hard to see. The Sight, I realized, dimly. I was seeing her for who she was.

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The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

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Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

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Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.

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The vampire's true appearance was grotesque—but it wasn't as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a lot worse, and some of the Elder Things could rip your mind apart just by letting you look at them

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Hello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a Komodo dragon. 'Don't you hello angel me. Do you know what I had to go through to find a baby-sitter, get all the way out here, get the money together and then get the sword back for you?

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Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

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Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.

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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.

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We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

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There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

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Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. "For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils.

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Gruff, I said, I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what's in a fae woman's mind.

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He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a.44 revolver in his pocket.

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If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

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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.

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I admit," Morgan said with another withering look, "it's no donut.

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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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Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

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We're all human.
We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

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Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.

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Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

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So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.

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Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.

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Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

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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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Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.

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Star Trek? I asked her. Really? What? she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly, I said. Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking. She sniffed. This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It's okay to like both. Blasphemy and lies, I said.

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