Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 14

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• Answer my question, Dresden,' Nicodemus growled. 'What is that?' 'A precaution against getting stuck in deep snow,' I said. 'He's training to be a Saint Bernard.' 'Excuse me?' Nicodemus said. I mimed covering one of Mouse's ears with my hand and stage-whispered, 'Don't tell him that they don't actually carry kegs of booze on their collars. Break his little heart.

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  Heart, Hands, Snow

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• Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.

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  Sick, Mets, Subconscious

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.14, Penguin

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• My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him. By contrast, I could barely talk to a woman, at least about anything pertaining to a relationship. Given that my only long-term girlfriends had faked their own death, died, and broken free of enslaving enchantments to end the relationship, the empirical evidence seemed to indicate that he knew something I didn't. Keep your life tonight, Harry. Complicate it tomorrow.

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  Girl, Brother, Crazy

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• Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

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  Waiting, Might, Wells

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Cursor's Fury”, p.154, Penguin

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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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• 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 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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• There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.

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  Disposition, Regard

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• Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?" Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

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  Crazy, Eye, Ideas

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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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• 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.

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  Hate, Ambition, Hands

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

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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.

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  Differences, Arms, Chins

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

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  Girl, Monsters, Littles

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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