Jim Butcher Quotes

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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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• When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

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  Inspirational, Family, Parenting

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.304, Penguin

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• There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

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  World, Should

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.264, Penguin

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

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  Would Be, Answers, Dull

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

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• Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar

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  Life, Journey, Doors

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.150, Penguin

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• Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.

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  Stars, Lying, Love Is

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.137, Penguin

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• Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

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  Hero, Sacrifice, Making Sacrifices

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.167, Penguin

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• Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

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  Running, Courage, Fear

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.224, Penguin

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• Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

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  Way, Sometimes, Burden

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.257, Penguin

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• The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

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  Littles, Impossible, Unimaginable

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.113, Penguin

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• Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

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  Running, Fun, Long

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• Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

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  Magic, Together, Spells

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

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• Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love.

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  Sex, Powerful, Hands

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.262, Penguin

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• We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.

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  Way, Pursuit, Something You Love

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.363, Penguin Group

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• Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

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  Children, Kids, Perfect

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin Group

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• But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

  Jim Butcher

  Hero, Sacrifice, Perfect

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.167, Penguin

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• A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don't let it control them. And wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.

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  Character, Men, People

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.257, Penguin Group

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• You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

  Jim Butcher

  Cat, Shopping, Bird

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin

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• Sleep is God. Go worship.

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  Sleep, Worship

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.151, Penguin Group

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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.

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  Real, Guy, Warning

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

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• Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Tools, Weapons

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.865, Penguin

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• What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

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  Eye, Destiny, Choices

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.174, Penguin

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• There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.

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  Worst, Knows

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.340, Penguin

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• All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.

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  Rain, Fall, Men

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Princeps' Fury”, p.418, Penguin

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• Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

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  Mean, Worry, Stories

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.191, Penguin

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