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You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

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I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.

Felicia managed to stagger to her feet, open the front door, and limp haltingly to the white limousine idling on the snowy street outside the house. Murphy went to the window to watch Felicia get into the limo and depart.

"Yeah," I said, deadpan. "The little blond woman has two of them.

Jim Butcher

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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. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.

Jim Butcher

Tag: dogs dresden-files

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Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Jim Butcher

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It's hard to think when someone's trying to kill you. We human beings aren't wired to be rational and creative when we know our lives are in danger of a swift and violent end. The body has definite ideas of which survival strategies it prefers to embrace, and those are generally limited to "rip threat to pieces" or "run like hell." No thinking need be involved, as far as our instincts are concerned.

Our instincts were a long time in the making, though, and the threats that can come after us now have outpaced them. You can't outrun a bullet, and you don't go hand-to-hand with a gunman unless you're certain you are about to die anyway. Speed and mindless aggression weren't going to keep me alive.

Jim Butcher

Tag: survival-instinct dresden-files

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You can be as sincere as hell and still be wrong.

Jim Butcher

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I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

Jim Butcher

Tag: questions curiosity dresden-files

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Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.