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• Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. "Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!" he shouted, pointing at Doroga. "He followed me home! Can we keep him?

  Jim Butcher

  Uncles, Home, Faces

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Furies Of Calderon: The Codex Alera: Book One”, p.370, Hachette UK

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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?

  Jim Butcher

  Baby, Angel, Kissing

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.42, 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.

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  Baby, Two, Oil

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

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  Men, Skills, Age

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

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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.

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  Men, Years, Law

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

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• Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped over to the car. I leaned forward, opened the door, and she got into the backseat. I threw her the extra clothes I had picked up, and she began to dress without comment. It worked," I said. "We did it." Of course it worked," Tera said. "Men are foolish. They will stare at anything female and naked.

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  Couple, Men, Doors

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.495, Penguin

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• I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh.

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  Typical, Pithy, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.240, Penguin

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• I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me that took a dark joy in gathering all the power it could and using it as I saw fit, everything else be damned. There was power to be had in hatred, too, in anger and in lust, in selfishness and in pride. And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos.

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  Fun, Believe, Pride

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.438, Penguin

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• Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on." Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?" It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

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  Eye, Pigs, Blue

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.152, Penguin

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• I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could have mighty odd ideas about what constituted a healthy diet. One time I'd opened the pantry and found nothing but boxes and boxes and boxes of Fruit Loops. I had a near-miss with diabetes, and Thomas, who was never quite sure where the food had come from, declared that I had clearly been driven Fruit Loopy.

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  Ideas, Missing, Healthy

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• I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled.

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  Bugs, Volkswagens, Wells

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.33, Penguin Group

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• I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

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  Intelligent, Thinking, Hard

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.190, Penguin

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• I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.

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  Harry Dresden, Psychotic, Wannabes

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.213, Penguin

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• Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too. "It's cute," I whispered to Murphy. "He has a teddy Glock.

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  Cute, Sleep, Gun

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2471, Penguin

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• Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.

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  Train Wrecks, Progress, Delight

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2310, Penguin

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• Troubleshooters?" Michael asked. "When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.

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  Trouble

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.175, Penguin

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• I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

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  Soldier, Trying, Looks

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.383, Penguin

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• ...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.

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  Crazy, Tree, Looks

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1159, Penguin

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• ...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.

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  Team, Mean, Tables

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.332, Penguin

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• Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

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  Running, Years, Monsters

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.10, Penguin

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• I like dogs. They give Mister something to snack on.

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  Dog, Snacks, Giving

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.59, Penguin Group

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• Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

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  White, Nurse, Dresses

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.141, Penguin Group

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• I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

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  Eye, Thinking, Seducing

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.93, Penguin Group

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• I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.

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  Couple, Museums, Fields

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.525, Penguin

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• Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

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  Library, Wizards, Computer

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin

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