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• Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.

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  Cousin, Insulting, One Day

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.392, Penguin

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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.

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  New York, Mean, Eye

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.844, Penguin

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• So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.

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  People, Bob, Hats

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.111, Penguin

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• Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?" "Because they're real." "How do you know?" "The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

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  Real, Hands, Knows

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.18, Penguin

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• Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop." I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead." The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, "I don't understand." I answered, "I don't either." A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood. Then she died.

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  Hurt, Tired, Eye

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.358, Penguin

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• When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

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  Stupid, Heroic, Said

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.384, Penguin

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• Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

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  Mind, Despair, Belief

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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.

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  Gorillas, Boring, Asks

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

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• God save me from idealists.

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  Save Me, Idealist, Thomas Raith

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.213, Penguin

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• Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

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  Women, Eye, Light

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.50, Penguin

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• 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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  Grace, Titles, Has Beens

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.200, 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.

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  Religious, Long, Mouths

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

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• Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

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  Village, Idiot, Somewhere Out There

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1075, Penguin

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• If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

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  Nice, Next Day, Track

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• The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

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  Lasts, Kill Me, Burned

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.444, Penguin

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• A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

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  Ego, Littles, Now And Then

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1330, Penguin

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• The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.

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  People, Perfect, Stuff

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2701, Penguin

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• Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

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  Pain, Two, Important

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1664, Penguin

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• Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry--" Assault formation!

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  Giving, Ems, Firsts

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• If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.

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  Want, If I Stay, Kill Me

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• No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.

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  Long, Secret, Stories

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Captain's Fury”, p.647, Penguin

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• You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.

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  Organization, Goal, Clean

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin

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• Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.

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  Healing, Love Is, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.136, Penguin

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• Murphy had found a spot on the street, which made me wonder if she didn't have some kind of magical talent after all. Only some kind of precognitive ESP could have gotten us a parking space on the street, in the shadow of a building, with both of us in sight of the apartment building's entrance.

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  Sight, Space, Shadow

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.50, Penguin

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• If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.

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  Style, Hell, Ifs

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.3371, Penguin

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