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She gave me a hard look. "No one likes a wiseass, Harry."
"Are you kidding? As long as the wiseass is talking to someone else, people love 'em.


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"No sir."
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Same...
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'N...
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I just like you, a little.

Your lips are sweet,
an...
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You don't have to explain yourself.

I s...
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quite missing no...
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oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"
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...
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The lady smiled. ...
JIM BUTCHER It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alon...
JIM BUTCHER There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.
JIM BUTCHER Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe l...
JIM BUTCHER Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting yo...
JIM BUTCHER It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. On...
JIM BUTCHER Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like ...
JIM BUTCHER Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you ar...
JIM BUTCHER Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.
JIM BUTCHER You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're i...
JIM BUTCHER See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.
JIM BUTCHER I took a moment to study the wards. They were a smooth patchwork of enchantment, probably the result...
JIM BUTCHER There were guns on the coffee table. Like, a lot of them, broken out on cloths, being cleaned, leane...
JIM BUTCHER There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.
JIM BUTCHER On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make th...
JIM BUTCHER But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just becau...
JIM BUTCHER I am disturbed by the presence of inordinate levels of coincidence
JIM BUTCHER She pressed the rest of her clothes into my hands and said, "Don't do anything weird with them."
JIM BUTCHER You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.
JIM BUTCHER There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
JIM BUTCHER All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we ar...
JIM BUTCHER Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?"

The ...
JIM BUTCHER The world always thinks that the destruction of a physical vessel is victory,” he said quietly. �...
JIM BUTCHER beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy.
JIM BUTCHER You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
JIM BUTCHER Never touch my brother on his fucking birthday.
JIM BUTCHER Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies."

"Y...
JIM BUTCHER Pansy," Murphy sneered.

Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk li...
JIM BUTCHER You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know...
JIM BUTCHER Let's get something clear up front. I'm not Harry Dresden. Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-go...
JIM BUTCHER Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked.

I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she ca...
JIM BUTCHER I realized then what had happened.

She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into g...
JIM BUTCHER Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.

Gggrrrr r...
JIM BUTCHER A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning....
JIM BUTCHER Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evapor...
JIM BUTCHER A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. "Get more away...
JIM BUTCHER Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with styl...
JIM BUTCHER I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd sett...
JIM BUTCHER Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
JIM BUTCHER Stop," Kincaid said in a calm voice. "Unclench."
"Unclench what?" Murphy demanded.
"Unclen...
JIM BUTCHER Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey m...
JIM BUTCHER And it's deadly to us. We can inspire lust, but it's just a shadow. An illusion. Love is a dangerous...
JIM BUTCHER