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“You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.”

Book:Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files

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Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files

This novel is set in a contemporary setting and follows the adventures of a wizard named Harry Dresden, who navigates the complexities of the magical and mundane worlds. The story delves into themes of personal transformation and the challenges of balancing one's identity and loyalties. more

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Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher, born on October 26, 1971, is an American fantasy author known for his unique world-building and imaginative storytelling. His 'Dresden Files' series has gained immense popularity among readers. more

“His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly. An image enters in, rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone.”

Source: The best of Rilke: 72 form-true verse translations with facing originals, commentary, and compact biography ; translated by Walter Arndt ; foreword by Cyrus Hamlin

“The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever.”

Source: The Second Fritz Leiber MEGAPACK®

“Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.”

Return Absurd Pointless Spirited

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.”

Said Break Window Holes Professors Pointing Snape Headmasters Mcgonagall Professor Mcgonagall

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.”

People Black White Bears Hero Built Absolutes Complexes Defeat Disaster Triumph Delusion Villain Black And White Epic Contradictory Ambiguity Dividing Perfectly Good Barricades

Author:J. R. Moehringer

“The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or for the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap, and goes for a long walk.”

Ifs World Long Jobs Young Dies Walks Wonder Brother Masters Dad Disease Died My Brother Glorious My Sister Ireland Ashes Caps Starvation Angela Long Walks

Author:Frank McCourt

“Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.”

Self Religious Emotion Moral Sacrifice Instinct Sexuality Courageous Artificial Self Sacrifice Perversion Modification Moral Education

Book:H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.”

Humans Long Law Humanity Existence Struggle Died Internals Dread Agony Human Existence Mock Shackles Internal Struggle

Book:The Island of Dr. Moreau

Source: The Island of Dr. Moreau

“Now I will believe that there are unicorns.”

Believe Tempest Unicorn

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson

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