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Cold Days

Name: Cold Days
Author: Jim Butcher

Cold Days is a 2012 bestselling novel by Jim Butcher and the 14th book in the ongoing The Dresden Files series. The book was first published on November 27, 2012 through Roc Hardcover and continues the adventures of wizard detective Harry Dresden.

“I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.”

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“Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.”

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“Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.”

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“The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.”

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“Thank God for imminent doomsday.”

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Variant: Thank God for wisecracks.
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“Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.”

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“I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab’s bed.

(My life. Hell’s bells.)”

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“Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person."

"I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said.

"It is today.”

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“Lacuna peered at my shirt. "Aer-O-Smith. Arrowsmith. Does the shirt belong to your weapon dealer?"

"No."

"Then why do you wear the shirt of someone else's weapon dealer?”

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“You think this is going to work? This peaceful summit thing?”
“Sure,” I said. After a second, I added, “Probably.”
“Probably?”
“Maybe,” I said.
“We’re down to maybe now?”
I shrugged. “We’ll see.”

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“Wait. You work for me?"
"I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.”

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“The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.”

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“Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.”

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“The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.”

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“Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.”

“You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked.

“What is that?” she asked.”

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“There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.”

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“Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.”

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“I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.”

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“Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell."

I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.”

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“Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked.

I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different."

"Isn't she Catholic?" Thomas asked. "Don't they have a guy?”

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