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JIM BUTCHER Ack!" I said.

Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.
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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 Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.
JIM BUTCHER