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41 " Marcone's scum, but he's his own scum" -Harry Dresden "
― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
42 " We're ostriches and the whole world is sand. "
43 " Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous. "
44 " You're a cop. I need a doughnut. "
45 " Playing cat and mouse is generally only fun for the cat. "
46 " I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. "
47 " I declared her brain frozen and assumed command of the local Warden detachment, which was handy, since it consisted of only me anyway. "
48 " The stupid part is that he isn't interested in... in getting serious. We get along. We have fun together. For him, that's enough. And it's so stupid for me to get hung up on him. "
49 " My brother threw up his hands. "What does a woman need to do, Harry? Rip her clothes off, throw herself on top of you, and shimmy while screaming, 'Do me, baby!'?" he shook his head. "Sometimes you're a frigging idiot. "
50 " That was the damnedest thing about these demonic collaborator types. Even though they didn't work out and practice, they still got to run faster than we dedicated roadsters who actually sweated and strained for our ability to haul ass. Jerks. "
51 " I moved my feet in a vague shuffle, and remembered somewhere that when you walked, you moved them alternately. This improved our progress considerably. "
52 " Kincaid rounded the far corner. He was dressed in his customary black clothing again, fatigue pants, and a hunting jacket over body armor, and he had enough guns strapped to his body to outfit a terrorist cell, or a Texan nuclear family. "
53 " I clenched my jaw as hard as I could. It wasn't much of a stretch to keep pretending to be angry, but I tried to go all Method actor on them. Eat your heart out, Sir Ian. "
54 " I run—and not so that I’ll be skinny and look good, either. I run so that when something that wants to kill me is chasing me, I’ll be good at running. "
55 " The reward for work well-done is more work. "
56 " You want it. I can see it in you.” I gritted my teeth. “The part of me that wants it doesn’t get a vote,” I said. "
57 " I try to make thinking an ongoing process. "
58 " We’re all imaginary friends to one another, "
59 " Could just be Chicago. Which can be just as scary as Mab, some days. "
60 " We’re ostriches and the whole world is sand. "