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“Be as circumspect as you feel is needed," she'd told me. "But do not deny who you are. There will always be someone looking to beat you down. Do not do their job for them.”
― Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead

“We are not going to die."

Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?"

"No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Nice try?” Butters said. “Mister, where I come from, there is no try.”
― Jim Butcher, Skin Game

“She wondered, briefly, if she was beautiful, decided she was and blew a kiss to her reflection”
― Kerry Greenwood, Death At Victoria Dock