Harry Dresden Quotes

• The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

  Jim Butcher

  Fire, Faults, Building

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.8, Penguin

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• HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment

  Jim Butcher

  Party, Advice, Wizards

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.17, Penguin Group

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• Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Stupid, Differences

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

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Women, Heart

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

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

  Jim Butcher

  Errors, Heaven, Made

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• You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!

  Jim Butcher

  Miracle, Workers, Miracle Worker

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.195, Penguin

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• Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!

  Jim Butcher

  Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.130, Penguin

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• Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

  Jim Butcher

  Inspirational, Pain, Important

  "White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9)". Book by Jim Butcher, April 3, 2007.

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• Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

  Jim Butcher

  Beautiful, Passion, Tyrants

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1694, Penguin

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• Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Growing Up, Moving

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.248, Penguin

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• In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

  Jim Butcher

  Motivational, Names, Lord

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.357, Penguin

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• Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

  Jim Butcher

  Would Be, Answers, Dull

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.195, Penguin Group

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• Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.

  Jim Butcher

  Perfect, Dresden

  Jim Butcher, Kat Richardson, Simon R. Green, Thomas E. Sniegoski (2009). “Mean Streets”, p.34, Penguin

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• Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

  Jim Butcher

  Heroism, World, Saving

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.173, 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.

  Jim Butcher

  Pain, Two, Important

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

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• Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Laughing, Sanity

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.217, Penguin

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• There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

  Jim Butcher

  Hands, Touching You, Knowing

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1584, Penguin

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• We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

  Jim Butcher

  Motivational, Eye, Stubborn

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Dead Beat: The Dresden Files, Book Seven”, p.270, Hachette UK

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

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Thinking, Treats

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

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• So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

  Jim Butcher

  Atheist, Fighting, Evil

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.85, Penguin Group

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• In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

  Jim Butcher

  Heroism, Want, Action

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.494, Penguin

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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

  Jim Butcher

  Fun, Dark, Long

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

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• There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Doe, Sanity

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.213, Penguin

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• Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Guy, Warning

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.359, 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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