Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 18

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• Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry." "Oh. Well. I've got to believe that the world is worth saving anyway.

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  Believe, Reality, Weapons

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2361, Penguin

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• Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.

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  Waiting, Facts, Sooner Or Later

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.373, Penguin

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• Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

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  Sheep, Hungry

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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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• Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

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  Smart, Stupid, Camels

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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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• Go back,” he said. “Can’t. Stand aside?” “Can’t.” “So it’s like that?” I said. Fix exhaled. Then he nodded. “Yeah.” And for the first time in a decade the Winter Knight and Summer Knight went to war.

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  Summer, War, Winter

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• Knight takes Knight,” I called into the cloudy night air. “Check.

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  Night, Air, Checks

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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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• A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me in a while if I don’t deal with it, oh, and the island’s blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lot of the country with it if I don’t fix it.” Thomas gave me a steady look. “So,” he said. “Same old, same old.

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  Country, Islands, Issues

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.125, Hachette UK

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• People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

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  People

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• Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.

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  Looks, Bunnies, Woods

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• I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

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  Thinking, Involuntary, Contribution

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

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  Voice, Monsters, Want

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.136, Penguin

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• Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies." "You, may be," Thomas said, sneering. "I'm his thug. I'm way higher than a flunky." "You are high if you think I'm taking any orders from you," Molly said tartly.

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  Thug, Thinking, Order

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• The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

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  Lasts, Kill Me, Burned

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.444, Penguin

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• If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

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  Nice, Next Day, Track

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• Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

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  Village, Idiot, Somewhere Out There

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1075, Penguin

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• Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?

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  Real, Home, College

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• I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness. Then a young woman's voice said, in a passable British accent, "The Little People are easily startled, but they'll soon be back. And in greater numbers." I sagged in sudden, exhausted relief. The bad guys hardly ever quote Star Wars.

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  Stars, War, Voice

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• Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

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  Gorillas, Boring, Asks

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.125, Penguin

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• I like dogs. They give Mister something to snack on.

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  Dog, Snacks, Giving

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.59, Penguin Group

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• Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

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  Running, Years, Monsters

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.10, Penguin

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• ...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.

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  Team, Mean, Tables

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.332, Penguin

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