Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 17

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• Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

  Jim Butcher

  Women, Eye, Yellow

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• I don't believe in faeries!

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  Believe, Harry Dresden, Faerie

  "Summer Knight". Book by Jim Butcher, 2002.

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• All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

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  Queens, Mad, Faerie

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1441, Penguin

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• A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.

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  Latin, Stupid, Kids

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.86, Penguin

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• I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.

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  Depressing, Thinking, Matter

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.104, Penguin

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• Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some." Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

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  People, Black, Vampire

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.184, Penguin

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• This is what it look like when it WORKS?

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  Looks

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Cursor's Fury”, p.340, Penguin

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• There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

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  Want, Walks, Live By

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.154, Penguin Group

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• I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

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  Thinking, Laughing, Scary

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.366, Penguin Group

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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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• For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

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  Chivalry, Reflexes, Involuntary

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.107, Penguin

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• Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.

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  Snacks, Evil, Chocolate

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.49, Penguin

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• Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry." I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves. Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy.

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  Crazy, Humble, Men

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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.

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  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.

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  Eyebrows, Units, Murphy

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• For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there's more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn't be out in the open, and they're covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time." Harry Dresden, Turn Coat.

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  Blood, Parent, Naked

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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.

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  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.

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  Mean, Sleep, Night

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

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

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  Dog, Order, Affair

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• Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

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  Heroism, World, Saving

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.173, Penguin

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• Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.

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  Mean, Dark, Potters

  Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Blood Lite: An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories Presented by the Horror Writers Association”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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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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