That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

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You ha...
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KRISTAN HIGGINS Your annuity can be guaranteed (it pays out for an agreed number of years even if you pop your clogs...
DAVID CRAIG You know, you can always do a three some.”
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He s...
KIRA4INU If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
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MINDY KALING Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?'
'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said.
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JACOB KEESECKER You slept with Curran and you didn’t tell me? I’m your best friend.”
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TERRY PRATCHETT Kid,” Richard said wearily, “I am not in the mood. I haven’t slept in thirty-six hours, my sis...
RACHEL CAINE We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures...
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SOPHIE KINSELLA You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap.
"Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay wit...
LUCY CHRISTOPHER I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I s...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER “I would’ve followed you anywhere,” he mumbles, his voice raw with agony. “All I eve...
A.G. HOWARD . . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love,...
REBECCA WALKER Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights sh...
JIM BUTCHER HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable R...
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L.M. MONTGOMERY It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that...
L. M. MONTGOMERY There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like tha...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
PAT PAULSEN Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay dow...
BERT BLYLEVEN If eBay wants to get a hold of you, it will pop up when you sign in there.
HARRY PONFIL Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he was wondering how to ask it."Well," he said at...
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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

That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

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That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

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