Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 18

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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.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Evil, Done

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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.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Character, Views

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

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• I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.

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  Kids, World, Safe

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.67, Penguin

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• My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.

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  Kevlar, Helping, Protect

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.360, Penguin Group

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• You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.

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  Moose, Diseased

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1872, Penguin

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• When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Writing, Tired

  Interview with Alisa McCune, www.sfsite.com. July 2004.

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• How long have you been a Wiccan?' 'A what?' 'A pagan. A witch.' 'I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.' Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?' 'Wizard has a Z' He looked at me blankly. 'No one appreciates me.' I muttered.

  Jim Butcher

  Doors, Differences, Long

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.84, Penguin Group

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• There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

  Jim Butcher

  Magic, Dresden Files

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• Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.

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  Firsts, Unicorn, Said

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.282, Penguin

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• I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly." ~Harry Dresden

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  Moving, Order, Car

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• I followed him through the halls of the enormous church until we got to the staff's kitchen. He went to the fridge, opened it, and came out with a bottle of bourbon. He poured some into a coffee cup, drank it down, and poured some more. He offered me the bottle. No, thanks. Aren't you supposed to drink vodka? Aren't you supposed to wear a pointy hat and ride on a flying broomstick? Touche, I said.

  Jim Butcher

  Coffee, Flying, Kitchen

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.387, Penguin

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• Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?

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  Heart, Men, Talking

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• I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

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  Ability, Irritating

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin

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• Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.” “Well,” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.

  Jim Butcher

  Found You, Middle, Spots

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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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• I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don’t. I’m sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that’s pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days

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  Fall, Play, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.87, Penguin Group

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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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• 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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• 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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• You think this is going to work? This peaceful summit thing?” “Sure,” I said. After a second, I added, “Probably.” “Probably?” “Maybe,” I said. “We’re down to maybe now?” I shrugged. “We’ll see.

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  Thinking, Peaceful, Said

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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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• 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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• Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.

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  Cheating, Lying, Drinking

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• Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!

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  Running, Monsters, Half

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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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