Dresden Quotes - Page 3

• You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.

  Jim Butcher

  Cute, Thinking, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.40, Penguin

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• There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

  Jim Butcher

  Family, Home, Insane

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• I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly." ~Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher

  Moving, Order, Car

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• Thank God for wisecracks.

  Jim Butcher

  Thank God

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.56, Penguin

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• Anyway, my office is small - one room, but on the corner, with a couple of windows. The sign on the door reads, simply, HARRY DRESDEN, WIZARD. Just inside the door is a table, covered with pamphlets with titles like: Magic and You, and Why Witches Don't Sink Any Faster Than Anyone Else - a Wizard's Perspective. I wrote most of them. I think it's important for we practitioners of the Art to keep up a good public image. Anything to avoid another Inquisition.

  Jim Butcher

  Art, Couple, Thinking

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.19, Penguin

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• For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there's more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn't be out in the open, and they're covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time." Harry Dresden, Turn Coat.

  Jim Butcher

  Blood, Parent, Naked

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• Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Dark, Potters

  Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Blood Lite: An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories Presented by the Horror Writers Association”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.

  Jim Butcher

  Night, Two, Shooting

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs”, p.79, Penguin

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

  Jim Butcher

  Shelter, Individual, Should

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

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• Magic. It can get a guy killed.

  Jim Butcher

  Guy, Magic, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book Thirteen”, Hachette UK

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• All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.

  Jim Butcher

  Winter, Knights, Harry Dresden

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• I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Air, Cities

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.3, Seven Stories Press

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• The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

  Konrad Adenauer

  War, World, February

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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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• My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I'm the only openly practicing professional wizard in the country. You can find me in the yellow pages, under "Wizards." Believe it or not, I'm the only one there. My ad looks like this: HARRY DRESDEN — WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment You'd be surprised how many people call just to ask me if I'm serious.

  Jim Butcher

  Country, Party, Believe

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.21, Penguin

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• I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.

  Jim Butcher

  Believe, Vampire, Balls

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.159, Penguin

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• Dresden. Am I interrupting something?" "Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don't have enough for two.

  Jim Butcher

  Baby, Two, Oil

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.112, Penguin

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• When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Writing, Tired

  Interview with Alisa McCune, www.sfsite.com. July 2004.

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• A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.

  Jim Butcher

  Latin, Stupid, Kids

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.86, Penguin

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• We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

  Jim Butcher

  Next, Sanity, Reason

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.112, Penguin

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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.

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Laughing, Scary

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

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• There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear.

  Jim Butcher

  Wall, Night, Light

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.260, Penguin

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

  Jim Butcher

  White, Nurse, Dresses

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

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• Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

  Jim Butcher

  Believe, Mean, Son

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.399, Penguin

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• The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Christian, Military, War

  "West must act to end jihad: Imam" by Frank Walker, www.smh.com.au. March 21, 2004.

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