Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 14

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I like dogs. They give Mister something to snack on.

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  Dog, Snacks, Giving

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.59, Penguin Group

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• Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

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  Running, Years, Monsters

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.10, Penguin

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• ...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.

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  Team, Mean, Tables

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.332, Penguin

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• Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

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  Gorillas, Boring, Asks

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.125, Penguin

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

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  Ignorance, Bliss

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• ...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.

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  Crazy, Tree, Looks

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1159, Penguin

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• Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

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  Dinosaurs, Call Me, Fairs

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.140, 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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• I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.

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  Car, Poison, Bombs

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.309, 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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• 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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• An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.

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  Smell, Said, Significance

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Princeps' Fury”, p.37, Penguin

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• Murphy had found a spot on the street, which made me wonder if she didn't have some kind of magical talent after all. Only some kind of precognitive ESP could have gotten us a parking space on the street, in the shadow of a building, with both of us in sight of the apartment building's entrance.

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  Sight, Space, Shadow

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.50, Penguin

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• A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

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  Ego, Littles, Now And Then

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1330, Penguin

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• Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.

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  Grace, Titles, Has Beens

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.200, Penguin

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• It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

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  Motorcycle, Faults, Wheels

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.152, Penguin

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• Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Circles

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.74, Penguin Group

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• We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

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  Ostriches, World, Sand

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• You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.

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  Answers, Captains, Should

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Captain's Fury: The Codex Alera: Book Four”, p.382, Hachette UK

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