See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.


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Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.
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Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"
The lady smiled. ...
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It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alon...
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There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.
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Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe l...
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Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting yo...
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It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. On...
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Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like ...
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Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you ar...
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Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.
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You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're i...
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I took a moment to study the wards. They were a smooth patchwork of enchantment, probably the result...
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There were guns on the coffee table. Like, a lot of them, broken out on cloths, being cleaned, leane...
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There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.
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On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make th...
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But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just becau...
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I am disturbed by the presence of inordinate levels of coincidence
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She pressed the rest of her clothes into my hands and said, "Don't do anything weird with them."
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You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.
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There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
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All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we ar...
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Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?"

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

"Y...
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Pansy," Murphy sneered.

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

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

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

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