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" Bob,” I said, louder. “Are you saying it… it ate my magic?”
Bob got a defensive look on his face. “Not all of it. I woke you up as quick as I could. Harry, don’t worry about it, you’ll heal. Sure, you might be down for a couple of months. Or, um, years. Well, decades, possibly, but that’s only a very outside chance—”
I cut him off with a slash of my hand. “He ate part of my power,” I said. “Does that mean that the Nightmare is stronger?”
“Well, naturally, Harry. You are what you eat.”
“Dammit,” I snarled, pressing one hand against my forehead. “Okay, okay. We’ve really got to find this thing now.” I started pacing back and forth. “If it’s using my power, it makes me responsible for what it does with it.”
Bob scoffed. “Harry, that’s irrational.”
I shot him a look. “That doesn’t make it any less true,” I snapped.
“Okay,” Bob said, meekly. “We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville. "
― Jim Butcher , Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
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" It's tough to say no to peace, to the comfort of it. All through history, people have traded wealth, children, land, and lives to buy it.
But peace can't be bought, can it, chief, prime minister? The only ones offering to sell it always want something more. They lie. "
― Jim Butcher , Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
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" Murphy,” I hissed. “Are you absolutely sure about this hair? That it belongs to Kravos?” If it didn’t, the doll wouldn’t do diddly to the sorcerer, unless I managed to throw it into his eye.
“We’re reasonably sure,” she whispered, “yes.”
“Reasonably sure. Great.” But I knelt down, and marked out the circle around me, then another around the Ken doll, and wrought my spell. "
― Jim Butcher , Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
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" Blood of the Dragon, that old Serpent,” Michael said, quietly. “You and yours have no power here. Your threats are hollow, your words are empty of truth, just as your heart is empty of love, your body of life. Cease this now, before you tempt the wrath of the Almighty.” He glanced aside at me and added, probably for my benefit, “Or before my friend Harry turns you into a greasy spot on the floor. "
― Jim Butcher , Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)