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Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

Jim Butcher

Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

Tags: dresden files

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Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.

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Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.

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This isn’t going to work, Justine murmured.It is going to work, I told her, keeping my tone confident. We’ll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us.Justine glanced at me with an arched eyebrow. The...

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This isn’t going to work, Justine murmured.It is going to work, I told her, keeping my tone confident. We’ll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us.Justine glanced at me with an arched eyebrow. The...

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We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

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We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

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There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light swit...

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You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

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You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

Tags: dresden files, harry dresden

Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.

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Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.

Tags: consequences, dresden files, fantasies, playboy

You're going to have to take care of yourself, Karrin said quietly. Over the next few weeks. Rest. Give yourself a chance to heal. Keep the wound on your leg clean. Get to a doctor and get that arm in...

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You're going to have to take care of yourself, Karrin said quietly. Over the next few weeks. Rest. Give yourself a chance to heal. Keep the wound on your leg clean. Get to a doctor and get that arm in...

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No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for...

Jim Butcher

No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for...

Tags: dresden files, evil, good and evil, villains

[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal.The kid lifted his eyebrows.My mouth is partially paralyzed, I said. It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. T...

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[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal.The kid lifted his eyebrows.My mouth is partially paralyzed, I said. It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. T...

Tags: dresden files

Raith smiled. There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You wer...

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Raith smiled. There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You wer...

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About Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher (born October 26, 1971) is an American author. He has written the contemporary fantasy The Dresden Files, Codex Alera, and Cinder Spires book series.