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21 " That’s why black magic is so easy—it comes from lust, from fear and anger, from things that are easy to feed and make grow. "
― Jim Butcher , Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
22 " 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 to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour. It came from my love of a good steak, from the way I would sometimes cry at a good movie or a moving symphony. From my life. From the hope that I could make things better for someone else, if not always for me. "
23 " You can’t photograph anything really supernatural,” I pointed out. “The energies around things like that will mess up cameras. "
24 " You got that paper cup? Right, then. All we need is a stuffed animal.’ He stared at me. ‘Wh-what did you say?’ ‘A stuffed animal, man!’ I roared at him. ‘Don’t mess with a wizard when he’s wizarding! "
25 " The position must have been excruciating—it isn’t every day that you get crucified and hung up as dinner for a monster, and you can’t really train your muscles for it. "
26 " Stop where you are.” He didn’t. He took a step toward me. So I shot him. "
27 " They didn’t want to kill me. They wanted to hurt me. And they were good at it. "
28 " wolf’s fur was speckled with drops of blood that had beaded on it like rain. The gravel in the alley shone in the half-light from the distant street lamps. The wolf’s muzzle, a little shorter and broader than I had seen on Wild Kingdom, was drawn back, black lips from fangs striped white and red like peppermints. Its eyes were blue, rather than any proper lupine shade, and gleamed with a sort of demented awareness. "
29 " it would be a real pity to die when I’d finally put tabs on who had gotten me into this mess— "
30 " The soreness lifted out of my muscles, and my cloudy, cloggy thought processes cleared as though someone had flushed my synapses with jalapeño. "
31 " Then I drew in a breath, and my renewed will with it, lifted the rod in my right hand, murmured a phrase in a language I didn’t know, and blew the tires off his fucking truck. "
32 " Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word. "
33 " So,” Murphy said. “All we need to do is get you up to the top of the pit, and then you’re going to go one-on-four with a bunch of armed FBI agents-cum-werewolves and beat them in time to go up against the loup-garou that we couldn’t stop before with all of your magical gizmos and a building full of police officers.” “Essentially,” I answered. Murphy "
34 " Okay,” I said, fear making my voice weak. "This is bad. This is very, very bad.” "Wish "
35 " You’re unconscious, moron,” my double said to me. “We can finally talk to one another. "
36 " My double snorted. “That’s good. That really is, the banter thing. I can’t do the banter very well. Maybe that’s why you’re in charge. Of course, if I was in charge more often, you’d get laid a lot more—but no, that’s not it, either. "
37 " They were huge, six feet long not including the tail, and as high as my belly at their shoulders. Their entirely human eyes shone, as did their bared fangs. "
38 " You are the only man I ever met,” Tera growled, “who would smash the paws that are trying to free you from certain death. "
39 " The very best wizards don’t need much more than chalk, table salt, and a wooden spoon to pull off some remarkable stuff. "
40 " So I, uh, sort of threw myself out of the passenger seat of a moving car. Don’t look at me like that. I’m telling you, it made sense at the time. "