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.

  Jim Butcher

  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.

  Jim Butcher

  World, Should

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

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• Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

  Jim Butcher

  Believe, Skills, People

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.67, Penguin

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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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• Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.

  Jim Butcher

  Worry, Disguise, Ifs

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Captain's Fury”, p.395, Penguin

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

  Jim Butcher

  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.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, Lying, Love Is

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

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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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• 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, 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.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Courage, Fear

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.224, 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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• 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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• Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

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  Different, Force, Forces Of Nature

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.221, Penguin

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• Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people are at their best, they’re acting in accordance with their soul. The ones who have gone bad don’t have bad souls. They’ve just given up on keeping in touch with them.

  Jim Butcher

  Beautiful, Thinking, Rocks

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

  Jim Butcher

  Way, Sometimes, Burden

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

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• There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

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  Hurt, Mean, Scary

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

  Jim Butcher

  Anger, What Matters, Choices

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1693, Penguin

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• The movie of my life must be really low budget.

  Jim Butcher

  Lows, Budgets

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Dead Beat: The Dresden Files, Book Seven”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, People, Choices

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

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• You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

  Jim Butcher

  Gun, Hands, Ideas

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.154, 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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• Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Like Love, Style

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.251, 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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• 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.

  Jim Butcher

  Rain, Fall, Men

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

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