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- I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a…
- Death is only frightening from the near side.
- Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing…
- Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.
- Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a…
- Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.
- My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire…
- It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.
- An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.
- You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.
- There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't…
- Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.
- Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed…
- The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at…
- Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that…
- God save me from idealists.
- There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
- There are some people who will never understand what loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course, but they will never know.They…
- I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull:…
- All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his…
- There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows.…
- Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
- Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped over to the car. I leaned forward,…
- The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no…
- If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.
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