Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 15

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• Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

  Jim Butcher

  Women, Eye, Yellow

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• I don't believe in faeries!

  Jim Butcher

  Believe, Harry Dresden, Faerie

  "Summer Knight". Book by Jim Butcher, 2002.

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• If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.

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  Style, Hell, Ifs

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.3371, Penguin

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• All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

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  Queens, Mad, Faerie

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1441, Penguin

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• I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.

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  Depressing, Thinking, Matter

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.104, Penguin

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• Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some." Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

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  People, Black, Vampire

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.184, Penguin

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• God save me from idealists.

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  Save Me, Idealist, Thomas Raith

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.213, Penguin

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• There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

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  Want, Walks, Live By

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.154, Penguin Group

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• I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

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  Thinking, Laughing, Scary

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.366, Penguin Group

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• Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on." Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?" It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Pigs, Blue

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

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• Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

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  White, Nurse, Dresses

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.141, Penguin Group

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• I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

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  Eye, Thinking, Seducing

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.93, Penguin Group

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• If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.

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  Want, If I Stay, Kill Me

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• Crows," Maximus breathed. "Was that who I think it was?" "Phrygiar Navaris," Tavi said, nodding. "What was she doing here?" Max asked. "Getting humiliated, mostly. Especially there at the end.

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  Thinking, Crow, Max

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Captain's Fury”, p.92, Penguin

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• Souls, I said. I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence just this body? Is there really something more? Do I really have a soul?Uriel's smile blossomed again. You've got it backward, Harry, he said. You are a soul. You have a body.

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  Real, Believe, Mean

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.424, Penguin

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• My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him. By contrast, I could barely talk to a woman, at least about anything pertaining to a relationship. Given that my only long-term girlfriends had faked their own death, died, and broken free of enslaving enchantments to end the relationship, the empirical evidence seemed to indicate that he knew something I didn't. Keep your life tonight, Harry. Complicate it tomorrow.

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  Girl, Brother, Crazy

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• Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.

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  Healing, Love Is, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.136, Penguin

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• The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

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  People, Psychology, Mind

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

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• Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

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  Pain, Two, Important

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1664, Penguin

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• I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.

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  Mean, Intellectual, Scare

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.29, Penguin

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• I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

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  Running, Scary, How You Feel

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.108, Penguin

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• I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.

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  Motivational, Monsters, Boots

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.249, Penguin

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• I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.

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  Couple, Museums, Fields

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.525, 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 can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?

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  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.149, Penguin

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