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There's been a half-dozen possessions and we can be sitting here 14-1. But when we've been in close games we do not make good decisions. Game in and game out, when we handle the basketball and if we can keep our turnovers somewhere between 15 or 16 instead of 22 or 23, we can play with anybody.


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JIM BUTCHER Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on th...
JIM BUTCHER I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with pe...
JIM BUTCHER There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or mor...
JIM BUTCHER I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am b...
JIM BUTCHER It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so m...
JIM BUTCHER I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. Bu...
JIM BUTCHER I like dogs. They give Mister something to snack on.
JIM BUTCHER Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me somethin...
JIM BUTCHER It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does n...
JIM BUTCHER Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste...
JIM BUTCHER We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.
JIM BUTCHER He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.
JIM BUTCHER I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once.

"El...
JIM BUTCHER Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless...
JIM BUTCHER I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pant...
JIM BUTCHER Do you really think you can win?'
'Yeah. Hell, Ortega is only the third or fourth most disturbi...
JIM BUTCHER Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It i...
JIM BUTCHER They don't make morgues with windows. In fact, if the geography allows for it, they hardly ever make...
JIM BUTCHER I put the ick in magic.
JIM BUTCHER Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector...
JIM BUTCHER My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.
JIM BUTCHER I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at t...
JIM BUTCHER Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.
JIM BUTCHER It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thin...
JIM BUTCHER There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
JIM BUTCHER You're such a cynic," Molly said.

"I think cynics are playful and cute.
JIM BUTCHER I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.
JIM BUTCHER Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute hi...
JIM BUTCHER Gandalf never had this kind of problem.
He had exactly this problem, actually, standing in fro...
JIM BUTCHER I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell....
JIM BUTCHER Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.
JIM BUTCHER Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"
The lady smiled. ...
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