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• Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.

  Jim Butcher

  Firsts, Unicorn, Said

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.282, Penguin

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• There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

  Jim Butcher

  Magic, Dresden Files

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• When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Writing, Tired

  Interview with Alisa McCune, www.sfsite.com. July 2004.

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• You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and— "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Goes On, Shade

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1726, Penguin

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• You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.

  Jim Butcher

  Moose, Diseased

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1872, Penguin

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• A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.

  Jim Butcher

  Latin, Stupid, Kids

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.86, Penguin

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• My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.

  Jim Butcher

  Kevlar, Helping, Protect

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.360, Penguin Group

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• For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

  Jim Butcher

  Chivalry, Reflexes, Involuntary

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.107, Penguin

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• I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don’t. I’m sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that’s pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days

  Jim Butcher

  Fall, Play, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.87, Penguin Group

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• Okay," Kincaid said. "Anyone have any questions?" "Why do they sell hot dogs in packages of ten but hot dog buns in packages of eight?

  Jim Butcher

  Dog, Eight, Hot

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• I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.

  Jim Butcher

  Easter, Couple, Vampire

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.233, Penguin

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• Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.” “Well,” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.

  Jim Butcher

  Found You, Middle, Spots

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• Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?

  Jim Butcher

  Heart, Men, Talking

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• I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Years, Law

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.249, Penguin

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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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  Dinosaurs, Call Me, Fairs

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.140, Penguin

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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.

  Jim Butcher

  Religious, Long, Mouths

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin

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• He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Skills, Age

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.58, Penguin

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• Dresden. Am I interrupting something?" "Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don't have enough for two.

  Jim Butcher

  Baby, Two, Oil

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.112, Penguin

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• He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

  Jim Butcher

  Evil, Morality, Kind

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.111, Penguin Group

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• 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.

  Jim Butcher

  Gorillas, Boring, Asks

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.125, Penguin

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