Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 13

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• If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

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  Tone, Patient, Shots

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• Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.

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  Waiting, Facts, Sooner Or Later

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.373, Penguin

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• All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, "A giant pair of cartoon lips." I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible. A big goofy magic nerd!" Bob said.

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  Eye, Glowing, Voice

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• Pansy," Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.

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  Pansies, Murphy, Sergeants

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.292, Penguin

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• Uh, the Council," I said. "Big shock, they aren't helping." Murphy looked like she might be asleep, but she snorted. "So we're on our own." Yeah." Good. It's more familiar.

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  Might, Helping, Yeah

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.275, Penguin

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• Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original." Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy.

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  Stars, Children, War

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.147, Penguin

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• Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

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  Sheep, Hungry

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• They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden." He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. "You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves." He nodded slowly. "I think I like you.

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  I Like You, Laughter, Believe

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.136, Penguin

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• Souls, I said. I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence just this body? Is there really something more? Do I really have a soul?Uriel's smile blossomed again. You've got it backward, Harry, he said. You are a soul. You have a body.

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  Real, Believe, Mean

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.424, Penguin

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• Crows," Maximus breathed. "Was that who I think it was?" "Phrygiar Navaris," Tavi said, nodding. "What was she doing here?" Max asked. "Getting humiliated, mostly. Especially there at the end.

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  Thinking, Crow, Max

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Captain's Fury”, p.92, Penguin

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• I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

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  Running, Scary, How You Feel

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.108, Penguin

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• The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

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  People, Psychology, Mind

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

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• I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.

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  Mean, Intellectual, Scare

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.29, Penguin

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• I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away.

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  Blue, Doors, Wizards

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• When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

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  Done, Want, Ashamed

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.222, Penguin

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• My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

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  Childhood, Stuff, Source

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• I put it down to the paranoia of advancing age. It isn't like I'm all that old or anything, especially for a wizard, but age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

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  Age, Wizards, Paranoia

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night”, p.2, Penguin

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• I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.

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  Years, Listening, Albums

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.36, 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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• 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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• Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans who allowed the television to raise their children. People were looking for something - I think they just didn't know what. And even though they were once again starting to open their eyes to the world of magic and the arcane that had been with them all the while, they still thought I must be some kind of joke.

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  Baby, Children, Eye

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.14, Penguin

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• But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

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  Race, Ideas, People

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.154, Penguin

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• No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

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  Being Yourself, Travel, Clever

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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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• ...It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

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  Littles, Hours, Just One

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