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We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.Jim Butcher
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I still can't believe, " Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.Jim Butcher
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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.Jim Butcher
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I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.Jim Butcher
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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
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Let come the forces of night! We will stand! " "We will get the hell out of here is what we will do, " I muttered.Jim Butcher
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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. And there is coppery fear, drawn tight as the strings of a violin, quavering on one single note that cannot possibly be sustained for a single second longer–but goes on and on and on, the tension before the crash of cymbals, the brassy challenge of the horns, the threatening rumble of the kettle drums. That's the kind of fear I felt. Horrible, clutching tension that left the coppery flavor of blood on my tongue. Fear of the creatures in the darkness around me, of my own weakness, the stolen power the Nightmare had torn from me. And fear for those around me, for the folk who didn't have the power I had.Jim Butcher
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Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.Jim Butcher
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I love you." Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmother's spell frayed as though the words had been an open flame, I don't know. I haven't found any explanation for it. There aren't any magical words, really. The words just hold the magic. They give it a shape and a form, they make it useful, describe the images within. I'll say this, though: Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. They resound in the heart and mind, they live long after the sounds of them have died away, they echo in the heart and the soul. They have power, and that power is very real. Those three words are good ones.Jim Butcher
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Ease off the martyr throttle.Jim Butcher
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...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.Jim Butcher
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I'm not a philosopher, Harry, " [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around.Jim Butcher
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I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.Jim Butcher
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I mean it, " I said. "You're in danger."" Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.Jim Butcher
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Hell's bells, Susan, you don't know what you've done. You've got to get outof here." She snorted. "Like hell."" I mean it, " I said. "You're in danger."" Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.Jim Butcher