Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 13

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• I’ve had a tense couple of days. And I’ve got to tell you, burning someone’s face off sounds like a great way to relax.

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  Couple, Relax, Sound

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2122, Penguin

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• But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

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  Way, Cowardice, Wrong Things

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1714, Penguin

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• Demonreach only wants Harry to see what's going on." "Why doesn't it just marry him?" Thomas muttered under his breath. "It sort of did," I said. "My brother the... geosexual?

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  Brother, Want, Said

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could have mighty odd ideas about what constituted a healthy diet. One time I'd opened the pantry and found nothing but boxes and boxes and boxes of Fruit Loops. I had a near-miss with diabetes, and Thomas, who was never quite sure where the food had come from, declared that I had clearly been driven Fruit Loopy.

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  Ideas, Missing, Healthy

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• You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

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  Jesus, Victory, Complicated

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.139, Penguin

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• I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.

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  Wizards, Harry Dresden, Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.331, Penguin

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• The vampire’s true appearance was grotesque--but it wasn’t as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a lot worse, and some of the Elder Things could rip your mind apart just by letting you look at them

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  Rip, Mind, Vampire

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.108, Penguin Group

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• Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

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  People, Punctuality

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.318, Penguin

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• The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.

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  Book, Character, Views

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.30, Penguin

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• All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, "A giant pair of cartoon lips." I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible. A big goofy magic nerd!" Bob said.

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  Eye, Glowing, Voice

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• Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.

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  Loneliness, Home, Waiting

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.175, Penguin Group

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• Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry." I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves. Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy.

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  Crazy, Humble, Men

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• If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

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  Nice, Next Day, Track

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• Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

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  Village, Idiot, Somewhere Out There

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1075, Penguin

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• Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?

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  Real, Home, College

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• I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness. Then a young woman's voice said, in a passable British accent, "The Little People are easily startled, but they'll soon be back. And in greater numbers." I sagged in sudden, exhausted relief. The bad guys hardly ever quote Star Wars.

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  Stars, War, Voice

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• I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.

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  Men, Thinking, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.17, Penguin

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• Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!

  Jim Butcher

  Ignorance, Bliss

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• Marcone's scum... But he's his own scum.

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  Scum, Harry Dresden, Dresden

  "Small Favor". Book by Jim Butcher, April 1, 2008.

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• There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

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  Audacity, Lines, Fine

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.156, Penguin

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• Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.

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  Shelter, Individual, Should

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1869, Penguin

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• I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled.

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  Bugs, Volkswagens, Wells

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.33, Penguin Group

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• You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.

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  Organization, Goal, Clean

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin

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• A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

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  Behinds, Prepared, Technicalities

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.80, Penguin Group

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• It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

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  Jobs, Fear

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.443, Penguin

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