Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 5

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• I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

  Jim Butcher

  Errors, Heaven, Harry Dresden

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• I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.

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  Children, Skulls, Battle

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.65, Penguin

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• I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

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  Real, Women, Heart

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.141, Penguin

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• No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

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  Mean, Wicked, Bob

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• Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.

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  Sea, Laughing, Enemy

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.324, Penguin

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• My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.

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  Sexy, Stars, Hair

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.22, Penguin

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• The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Thinking, Looks

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.43, Penguin

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• I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.

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  Sorry, Book, Apology

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.187, Penguin

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• If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

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  Arms, Judgment, Break

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.3290, Penguin

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• Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost.

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  Glasses, Principles, Lines

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.12, Penguin

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• Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.

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  Pain, Mean, Sacrifice

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.11, Penguin

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• Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.

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  Stones, Bullets, Sticks

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• You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

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  Motivational, Breakfast, Lions

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.98, Penguin Group

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• The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean.

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  Rain, Eye, Buckets

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.164, Penguin Group

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• And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos

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  Fun, Dark, Long

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

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• Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

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  Intelligent, Suave, Fabulous

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.192, Penguin

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• You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

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  Evil, Confusing, Know How

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.185, Penguin

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• I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.

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  Strong, Children, Book

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.362, Penguin

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• Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.

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  Gun, Flattery

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.69, Penguin

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• Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcone inquired. "The plural could be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural.

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  Art, Latin, Believe

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1694, Penguin

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• She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?

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  Mom, Children, Simple

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.225, Penguin Group

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• Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

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  Witty, Fearless, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.29, Penguin

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• ‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

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  Fighting, Darkness, Different

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.586, Penguin

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• One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

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  Preparation, Foresight

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.131, Penguin

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• Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

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  Weapons, Has Beens, Ultimate

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.112, Penguin

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