Jim Butcher Quotes

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• Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Stupid, Differences

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• Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

  Jim Butcher

  Evil, Metrics, Metric System

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• When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

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  Inspirational, Family, Parenting

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.304, Penguin

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• Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

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  Would Be, Answers, Dull

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.195, Penguin Group

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• There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

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  World, Should

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.264, Penguin

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• Survival was not enough. One had to live.

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  Survival, Enough

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Captain's Fury”, p.313, Penguin

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• Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.

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  Stars, Lying, Love Is

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.137, Penguin

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• Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar

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  Life, Journey, Doors

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.150, Penguin

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• Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

  Jim Butcher

  Hero, Sacrifice, Making Sacrifices

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.167, Penguin

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• Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

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  Way, Sometimes, Burden

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.257, Penguin

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• Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

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  Running, Courage, Fear

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.224, Penguin

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• The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

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  Strong, People, Choices

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin

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• I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

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  Men, Twenties, Coincidence

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.74, Penguin

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• Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

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  Rights, Like Love, Hope Love

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.215, Penguin

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• Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love.

  Jim Butcher

  Sex, Powerful, Hands

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.262, Penguin

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• We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.

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  Way, Pursuit, Something You Love

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.363, Penguin Group

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• The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

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  Littles, Impossible, Unimaginable

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.113, Penguin

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• Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

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  Magic, Together, Spells

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.438, Penguin

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• But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

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  Hero, Sacrifice, Perfect

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.167, Penguin

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• Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

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  Running, Fun, Long

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• Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

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  Life Is Too Short, Joy, Gone

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.102, Penguin

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• Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

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  Land, Healthy, Denial

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.24, Penguin

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• There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

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  Hurt, Mean, Scary

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

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  Fire, Faults, Building

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.8, Penguin

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• Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.

  Jim Butcher

  Pigs, Noses, Cows

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.2012, Penguin

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