Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop."
I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead."
The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, "I don't understand."
I answered, "I don't either."
A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood.
Then she died.

Jim Butcher

Tag: harry-dresden summer-knight jim-butcher

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Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.

Jim Butcher

Tag: humorous

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I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick.

Jim Butcher

Tag: humor dresden-files proven-guilty

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The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean.

Jim Butcher

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My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away.
Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?

Jim Butcher

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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

Jim Butcher

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Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?"
"Because they're real."
"How do you know?"
"The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

Jim Butcher

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The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

Jim Butcher

Tag: fire harry-dresden good-times shindig

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Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell."

I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.

Jim Butcher

Tag: firefly harry-dresden molly-carpenter

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There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

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