Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 16

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• Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

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  Dinosaurs, Call Me, Fairs

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.140, Penguin

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• But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

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  Way, Cowardice, Wrong Things

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1714, Penguin

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• I’ve had a tense couple of days. And I’ve got to tell you, burning someone’s face off sounds like a great way to relax.

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  Couple, Relax, Sound

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2122, Penguin

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• You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.

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  Black, Creepy, Littles

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favour: The Dresden Files, Book Ten”, p.204, Hachette UK

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• That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

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  Culture, Problem, Type

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.324, Penguin

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• Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.

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  Clueless, Men, Mind

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2423, Penguin

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• I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.

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  Wizards, Harry Dresden, Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.331, Penguin

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• I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

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  Saving Up, White, Miles

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.331, Penguin

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• Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!

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  Ignorance, Bliss

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• I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.

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  Men, Thinking, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.17, Penguin

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• Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.

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  Loneliness, Home, Waiting

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.175, Penguin Group

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• I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry.

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  People, Battle, Might

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.38, Penguin

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• Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.

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  Night, Two, Shooting

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs”, p.79, Penguin

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• Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore." Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.

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  Eye, Evil, Done

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

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  Library, Wizards, Computer

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin

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• I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh.

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  Typical, Pithy, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.240, Penguin

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• The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.

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  Book, Character, Views

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.30, Penguin

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• Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

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  People, Punctuality

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.318, Penguin

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• If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.

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  Fun, Bad Thoughts, Ifs

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.91, Penguin

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• Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

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  People, Evil, Cards

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.37, Penguin

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