Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 12

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• At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

  Jim Butcher

  Mad, Nails, Paper

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.187, Penguin Group

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• My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

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  Relief, World, Good Things

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.249, Penguin

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• Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.

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  Cousin, Insulting, One Day

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.392, Penguin

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• I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.

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  Weird Things, Staring

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.49, Penguin

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• I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick.

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  Real, Sight, Feet

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• I can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?

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  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.149, Penguin

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• Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.

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  Pain, Loss, Past

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Captain's Fury”, p.313, Penguin

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• The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

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  Regret, Past, Different

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Captain's Fury”, p.314, Penguin

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• You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame." Sanya to Dresden

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  Drug, Tiny, Shame

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• Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

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  Night, Evil, Said

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.524, Penguin

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• So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare somewhere nearby.

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  Naked, Rope, Half

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.94, Penguin

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• Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.” “If it was a louper, you’d know,” Bob said wisely. “In the middle of this town, you’d have a dozen people dead every time the full moon came around. What’s going on?” “A dozen people are dying every time the full moon comes around.

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  Moon, People, Dying

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.46, Penguin

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• Ease off the martyr throttle.

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  Ease, Martyr, Throttle

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.189, Penguin

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• For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life." I called power into my blasting rod, and its tip glowed incandescent white. "The way I see it, there's nothing else worth fighting a war for" -Harry Dresden

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  War, Fighting, White

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.266, Penguin

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• You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.

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  Running, Guy, Next

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• My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do.

  Jim Butcher

  Girl, Monsters, Littles

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• Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

  Jim Butcher

  Differences, Arms, Chins

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• I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

  Jim Butcher

  Hate, Ambition, Hands

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Academ's Fury: The Codex Alera: Book Two”, p.326, Hachette UK

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• I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

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  Switzerland, Agnostic, Burden

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• Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.

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  Want, Littles, Helping

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.18, Penguin

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• Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.

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  Harry Dresden, Dresden, Discretion

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.26, Penguin

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• It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.

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  Stupid, Men, Space

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.231, Penguin

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• Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst.

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  Men, Feet, Glasses

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.63, Penguin

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• The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

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  Thinking, Mad, Insane

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.173, Penguin

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• I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.

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  Giving, Advice, Sometimes

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.222, Penguin

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