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Jim Butcher Quote: “Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There’s a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, galvanizes you into action, power, motion. There’s heavy, leaden fear that comes in ingots, piling up in your belly during the empty hours between midnight and morning, when everything is dark, every problem grows larger, and every wound and illness grows worse.”

401. “Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There’s a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, galvanizes you into action, power, motion. There’s heavy, leaden fear that comes in ingots, piling up in your belly during the empty hours between midnight and morning, when everything is dark, every problem grows larger, and every wound and illness grows worse.”

— Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Quote: “Scars – the graffiti of violence. – Harry Dresden.”

402. “Scars – the graffiti of violence. – Harry Dresden.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “We’ve both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.”

403. “We’ve both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “I now had two handy shafts of wood with jagged, pointy ends. I stepped between Inari and the nearest vampire and passed her one broken half of the rod. “Here,” I said. “If you get the chance, make like Buffy.”

404. “I now had two handy shafts of wood with jagged, pointy ends. I stepped between Inari and the nearest vampire and passed her one broken half of the rod. “Here,” I said. “If you get the chance, make like Buffy.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “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.”

405. “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.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Woof,” said Billy the Werewolf.”

406. “Woof,” said Billy the Werewolf.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Yeah, they look great, but that isn’t a fantasy come true, Harry. That’s a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.”

407. “Yeah, they look great, but that isn’t a fantasy come true, Harry. That’s a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away.”

408. “I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “The only people who never hurt are dead.”

409. “The only people who never hurt are dead.”

— Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Quote: “Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.”

410. “Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Bite me, faerie fruitcake.”

411. “Bite me, faerie fruitcake.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “It was a well-known fact that humans became more addled than usual when running in herds.”

412. “It was a well-known fact that humans became more addled than usual when running in herds.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts.”

413. “Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts.”

— Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Quote: “Seedy wasn’t a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.”

414. “Seedy wasn’t a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Strategy and tactics, discipline and protocol are necessary, but they’re just the beginning. You have to know people, Byron. How they think, what motivates them. Watch. Learn.”

415. “Strategy and tactics, discipline and protocol are necessary, but they’re just the beginning. You have to know people, Byron. How they think, what motivates them. Watch. Learn.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “It gets sort of Zen after a while,” Butters said brightly. “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.”

416. “It gets sort of Zen after a while,” Butters said brightly. “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Sometimes, Hoss,” he said very gently, “you lose. Sometimes the darkness takes everyone. Sometimes the monster escapes to kill again another day.” He shook his head and looked down. “Sometimes, Hoss, the innocent little ones are murdered. And there’s not one goddamned thing you can do about it.”

417. “Sometimes, Hoss,” he said very gently, “you lose. Sometimes the darkness takes everyone. Sometimes the monster escapes to kill again another day.” He shook his head and looked down. “Sometimes, Hoss, the innocent little ones are murdered. And there’s not one goddamned thing you can do about it.”

— Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Quote: “An honest man is a rare treasure.”

418. “An honest man is a rare treasure.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. – Harry Dresden describing Morgan.”

419. “He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. – Harry Dresden describing Morgan.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “You’ve got it backward, Harry,” he said. “You are a soul. You have a body.”

420. “You’ve got it backward, Harry,” he said. “You are a soul. You have a body.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “It was like a fire in my thoughts, my concentration, burning ever more brightly, more pure, refining my anger, my hate, into something steel-hard, steel-sharp. I could feel it burning, and reached for it eagerly, shoving the pain inside to fuel my incandescent anger.”

421. “It was like a fire in my thoughts, my concentration, burning ever more brightly, more pure, refining my anger, my hate, into something steel-hard, steel-sharp. I could feel it burning, and reached for it eagerly, shoving the pain inside to fuel my incandescent anger.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Ignorance is more than bliss, it’s freaking orgasmic ecstacy!”

422. “Ignorance is more than bliss, it’s freaking orgasmic ecstacy!”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Cowl’s apprentice was tough and competent, but no amount of training or forethought can prepare you for the sight of an angry dinosaur coming to eat your ass.”

423. “Cowl’s apprentice was tough and competent, but no amount of training or forethought can prepare you for the sight of an angry dinosaur coming to eat your ass.”

— Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Quote: “I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.”

424. “I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “You can use just about anything to make a magic circle, but salt is often the most practical. It’s a symbol of the earth and of purity, and it doesn’t draw ants. You use sugar to make a circle on the carpet only once. Let me tell you.”

425. “You can use just about anything to make a magic circle, but salt is often the most practical. It’s a symbol of the earth and of purity, and it doesn’t draw ants. You use sugar to make a circle on the carpet only once. Let me tell you.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “See, here’s the thing. Morgan was right: you can’t win them all. But that doesn’t mean that you give up. Not ever. Morgan never said that part – he was too busy living it.”

426. “See, here’s the thing. Morgan was right: you can’t win them all. But that doesn’t mean that you give up. Not ever. Morgan never said that part – he was too busy living it.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “I am pure of heart and mind,” I told her. “I cannot be corrupted.”

427. “I am pure of heart and mind,” I told her. “I cannot be corrupted.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.”

428. “The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “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.”

429. “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.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Hope lets you do things you would otherwise never be able to do, gives strength when everything is darkest. In.”

430. “Hope lets you do things you would otherwise never be able to do, gives strength when everything is darkest. In.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn’t seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.”

431. “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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Jim Butcher Quote: “Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.”

432. “Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “One rather thick volume was titled Means of Execution Through the Ages, and was placed with an elegant balance of nonchalance and availability at the eye level of anyone entering the room. As threats went, it was nearly subliminal – and perhaps it was placed there for that very reason.”

433. “One rather thick volume was titled Means of Execution Through the Ages, and was placed with an elegant balance of nonchalance and availability at the eye level of anyone entering the room. As threats went, it was nearly subliminal – and perhaps it was placed there for that very reason.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of times they don’t understand what’s happening. They see something they don’t like and it upsets them – because they don’t have the full story, aren’t personally facing the problem, and don’t know how much worse the alternative could be.”

434. “Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of times they don’t understand what’s happening. They see something they don’t like and it upsets them – because they don’t have the full story, aren’t personally facing the problem, and don’t know how much worse the alternative could be.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “That’s so typical. You won’t steal a baby, but you’re too lazy to conjugate.”

435. “That’s so typical. You won’t steal a baby, but you’re too lazy to conjugate.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Every potion has eight parts. One part is a base liquid to hold the others and provide a medium for mixing. Five parts are symbolically linked to each of the five senses. One is similarly linked to the mind, and another to the spirit. The basic ingredient to the stimulant potion was coffee, while the base for the scent-masking potion was water. I got them both to boiling.”

436. “Every potion has eight parts. One part is a base liquid to hold the others and provide a medium for mixing. Five parts are symbolically linked to each of the five senses. One is similarly linked to the mind, and another to the spirit. The basic ingredient to the stimulant potion was coffee, while the base for the scent-masking potion was water. I got them both to boiling.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Anger subsides. Love doesn’t.”

437. “Anger subsides. Love doesn’t.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Hell’s Bells-Harry Dresden.”

438. “Hell’s Bells-Harry Dresden.”

— Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Quote: “You think you’re funny.” “Oh, I know I’m funny. Unappreciated, but funny.”

439. “You think you’re funny.” “Oh, I know I’m funny. Unappreciated, but funny.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.”

440. “I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Well,” Antillus Raucus said. “There it is.” “Brilliant last words,” Phrygius said beside him. “We’ll put them on your memorium. Right next to, ‘He died stating the obvious.’ ” “Ah,” Lord Placida said. “It begins.” “See?” Phrygius said. “Sandos knows how to go out with style.” “You want to go out with style, I’ll strangle you with your best silk tunic,” growled Antillus.”

441. “Well,” Antillus Raucus said. “There it is.” “Brilliant last words,” Phrygius said beside him. “We’ll put them on your memorium. Right next to, ‘He died stating the obvious.’ ” “Ah,” Lord Placida said. “It begins.” “See?” Phrygius said. “Sandos knows how to go out with style.” “You want to go out with style, I’ll strangle you with your best silk tunic,” growled Antillus.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “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.”

442. “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.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “I don’t have anything against God. Far from it. But I don’t understand Him. And I don’t trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they’re working in His best interests. Faeries and vampires and whatnot – those I can fathom. Even demons. Sometimes, even the Fallen. I can understand why they do what they do. But I don’t understand God. I don’t understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.”

443. “I don’t have anything against God. Far from it. But I don’t understand Him. And I don’t trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they’re working in His best interests. Faeries and vampires and whatnot – those I can fathom. Even demons. Sometimes, even the Fallen. I can understand why they do what they do. But I don’t understand God. I don’t understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.”

— Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Quote: “I’ve always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity.”

444. “I’ve always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.”

445. “The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “In for a sheep, in for a gargant.”

446. “In for a sheep, in for a gargant.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.”

447. “Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Bikers don’t wear all that leather around simply for the fashion value or possible felony assaults. It’s handy for keeping the highway from ripping the skin from your flesh should you wind up losing control of the bike and sliding along the asphalt for a while.”

448. “Bikers don’t wear all that leather around simply for the fashion value or possible felony assaults. It’s handy for keeping the highway from ripping the skin from your flesh should you wind up losing control of the bike and sliding along the asphalt for a while.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “It was worse than murder. It was twisted, wretched perversion, as though someone had bludgeoned another person to death with a Botticelli, turned something of beauty to an act of utter destruction.”

449. “It was worse than murder. It was twisted, wretched perversion, as though someone had bludgeoned another person to death with a Botticelli, turned something of beauty to an act of utter destruction.”

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Jim Butcher Quote: “Honestly. He sometimes felt that humans simply had to be deliberately obtuse. What was so difficult about understanding civilized and excellently enunciated speech?”

450. “Honestly. He sometimes felt that humans simply had to be deliberately obtuse. What was so difficult about understanding civilized and excellently enunciated speech?”

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