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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• Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

  Jim Butcher

  Winter, Bitter, Cold

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.345, Penguin

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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.

  Jim Butcher

  World, Should

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.264, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

  Jim Butcher

  Littles, Impossible, Unimaginable

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

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• Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

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  Mean, Grows, One Thing

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.269, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Stupid, Black, World

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

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• There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

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  Mean, Choices, Might

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.124, Penguin

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

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  Fire, Faults, Building

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

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• If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

  Jim Butcher

  Fighting, Winning, Eight

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.200, 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.

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  Laughter, Like Love, Style

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

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