Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 14

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• Dresden. Am I interrupting something?" "Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don't have enough for two.

  Jim Butcher

  Baby, Two, Oil

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.112, Penguin

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• He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Skills, Age

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.58, Penguin

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• I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Years, Law

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.249, Penguin

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• I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.

  Jim Butcher

  I Can

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• A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of them made a chittering sound that wasn't very melodic. The other twitched its tail and splashed a little water our way, all in good fun. They weren't the attractive Flipper kind of dolphins. They were regular dolphins that aren't as pretty and don't get cast on television. Maybe they just refused to sell out and see a plastic surgeon. I held up a fist to them. Represent.

  Jim Butcher

  Fun, Water, Pairs

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2227, Penguin

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• Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

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  Fleeting, Life Is Precious, Murphy

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.161, Penguin

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• You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

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  Hurt, Scary, Abandon

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• Where is your unit?" Murphy asked. I wiggled my eyebrows at her. "Right where it's always been, dollface.

  Jim Butcher

  Eyebrows, Units, Murphy

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• I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.

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  Shelter, Individual, Should

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1869, Penguin

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• Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Sleep, Night

  "Turn Coat". Book by Jim Butcher, 2009.

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• You killed my dog! Get your affairs in order.

  Jim Butcher

  Dog, Order, Affair

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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.

  Jim Butcher

  Blue, Doors, Wizards

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• Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.

  Jim Butcher

  Train Wrecks, Progress, Delight

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2310, 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.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Scary, How You Feel

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

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Believe, Mean

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

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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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• When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Ideas, Trying

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• Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

  Jim Butcher

  Passion, Should

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• When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better.

  Jim Butcher

  Writing, Wizards, Littles

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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.

  Jim Butcher

  Childhood, Stuff, Source

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• Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

  Jim Butcher

  Women, Eye, Light

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.50, Penguin

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• Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.

  Jim Butcher

  Animal, Intelligent, Numbers

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2105, Penguin

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• Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

  Jim Butcher

  White, Sprinkles, Said

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.357, Penguin

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