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

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  Believe, Skills, People

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

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Rocks

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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.

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  Strong, People, Choices

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

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Fun, Long

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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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• Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

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  Rights, Like Love, Hope Love

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.215, Penguin

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• He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

  Jim Butcher

  Stupid, Black, World

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.341, Penguin

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

  Jim Butcher

  Way, Pursuit, Something You Love

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

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• 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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