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The Law (The Dresden Files, #17.5) The Law by Jim Butcher
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“stupid is way more dangerous than actual evil, if only because there’s so much more of it around.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“It’s okay to hurt. It’s not okay to fail the people who rely on me. That was my point of balance.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“Planet Earth isn’t a fair place. It’s unfair in a broad variety of different ways, some worse than others, but it isn’t fair. Not for anybody. And that’s pretty much the fairest thing about it.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“Can’t you, like, enhance these?” “No,” Gary said flatly. “Because I don’t have imaginary movie powers.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“I’d been feeling sorry for myself, which is about the most use- less thing you can feel: it doesn’t do a damned thing for you. You don’t feel any better, you don’t get any better, and you’re too busy moping to do anything to actually make your life any better. There’s”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“If at first you don’t succeed,” Bob said cheerfully, “you probably needed a better plan to begin with.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“I’d been feeling sorry for myself, which is about the most use- less thing you can feel: it doesn’t do a damned thing for you. You don’t feel any better, you don’t get any better, and you’re too busy moping to do anything to actually make your life any better.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“Planet Earth isn’t a fair place. It’s unfair in a broad variety of different ways, some worse than others, but it isn’t fair. Not for anybody.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“But something deep down inside me stirred, like an old warhorse who hears the sound of trumpets.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“My knuckles ached to meet his nose.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“Don’t end a sentence in a fucking preposition,” Tripp said.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“You don’t help people sand off any rough edges by telling them how much they suck. I’d hadn’t always been so different from the kid.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“But something deep down inside me stirred, like an old warhorse who hears the sound of trumpets”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“I think that you’re dealing with a deity, or at least a demigod.” “Jesus,” I said. “No, this guy is Finnish, not Jewish,” Bob said seriously.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“how the hell can he afford a lawyer?” “Maybe he’s paying in sex.” “I’ve met the guy. That transaction only goes the other way, believe me.”
Jim Butcher, The Law
“I had just been defeated by a literal hallucination built from denial and the most determined and pettily self-interested stupidity I had ever encountered.”
Jim Butcher, The Law