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• Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry." I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.

  Jim Butcher

  Couple, Past, Ashes

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.16, Penguin

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• Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster’s mind.

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  Imagination, Magic, Mind

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.94, Penguin

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• Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

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  Thinking, Waiting, Incompetence

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.442, Penguin

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• Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

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  Writing, Monsters, Littles

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.269, Penguin

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• Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.

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  Perfect, Harry Dresden, Dresden

  Jim Butcher, Kat Richardson, Simon R. Green, Thomas E. Sniegoski (2009). “Mean Streets”, p.34, Penguin

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• Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

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  Venture, Failing, Instinct

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.67, Penguin Group

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• Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out of crepe paper and duct tape and boasted a computer system that looked like it could have run the NYSE and NORAD, with enough attention left over to play tic-tac-toe. Or possibly Global Thermonuclear War.

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  Running, War, Play

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.56, Penguin

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• Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.” “Why?” she asked. “Well. I met him,” I said.

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  Guy, Want, Bigs

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.338, Penguin

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• Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They were concentrated most densely around her ... well ... She'd been, ah, vajazzled.

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  Color, Pale Skin, Skins

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• Never let it be said that Harry Dresden is afraid of a dried, dead bug. Creepy or not, I wasn't going to let it ruin my concentration. So I scooped it up with the corner of the phone book and popped it into the middle drawer of my desk. Out of sight, out of mind. So I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.

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  Book, Phones, Sight

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.55, Penguin Group

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• I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.

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  Limits, Thomas Raith

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.234, Penguin

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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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  White, Kind, Boyish

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.13, Penguin

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• I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

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  Trying, Gears, Lines

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.260, Penguin

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• The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.

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  Home, Guy, Mustache

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.51, Penguin

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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.

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  Karma, Thinking, Frowning

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.270, Penguin

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• I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.

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  Believe, Clouds, Silver

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.602, Penguin

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• Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

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  Men, Guy, Hard

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.7, Penguin

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• My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that problem with the elevator last year. I don't care what anyone says, that wasn't my fault. when a giant scorpion the size of an Irish wolfhound is tearing its way through the roof of your elevator car, you get real willing to take desperate measures.

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  Real, Years, Desperate Measures

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.19, Penguin

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• Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference." I frowned. "There's...a law of conservation of history?

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  Strong, Law, Quality

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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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  Eye, Comforting, Dental

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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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  Good Person, Away From You, Persons

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.79, Penguin

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• And you've got that look on your face again." "I can't help it, "Ehren said. "You're about to walk to breakfast, arn't you, regardless of who is in the way?" "Yes," Tavi said. Ehren sighed. "Let's hear it." Tavi told him the plan. "That's insane," Ehren said. "It could work." "You arn't going to have anyone come along to bail you out this time," Ehren pointed out. Tavi grinned. "Are you with me?" "The plan is insane," Ehren said. "You are insane." He looked around inside the tent. "I'll need some pants.

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  Insane, Tents, Faces

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• You need a prostate to understand,” I said.

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  Needs, Said, Prostate

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.701, Penguin

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• ...the Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?

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  Beer, Men, Makeup

  "Changes". Book by Jim Butcher, April 6, 2010.

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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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  Mean, Night, Turkeys

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.113, Penguin

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