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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Friends don't count the cost of favors.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Danse Macabre
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse
    tags: fear, unknown
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
    tags: helping, humor
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains
    tags: animator, anita, blake, hunter, jacob, vampire
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton
    tags: anita, vampires
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse
    tags: anita-blake, death, speak-not-ill-of-the-dead
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: dumbledore
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: hermione
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: death
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    Darren Shan
    “Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?"
    Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.”
    ― Darren Shan, Hunters of the Dusk
    tags: vampires
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    Jim Butcher
    “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
    ― Jim Butcher
    tags: family
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    Jim Butcher
    “Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Storm Front
    tags: demon, paranoia, paranoid
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    Jim Butcher
    “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
    ― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
    tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen
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    Jim Butcher
    “I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon
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    Jim Butcher
    “Are you always a smartass?'

    Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: humor, impudence, sarcasm, smartass
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    Jim Butcher
    “An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: danger, errands, incendiary-poo, pyromaniac-gorillas
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    Jim Butcher
    “The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
    tags: harry-dresden
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    Jim Butcher
    “You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
    tags: evil, good, good-and-evil, humor, morality
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    Jim Butcher
    “I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.”
    ― jim butcher, Summer Knight
    tags: harry-dresden, humor
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    Jim Butcher
    “Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Storm Front
    tags: humor, women
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