Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 19

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• ...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.

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  Crazy, Tree, Looks

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1159, Penguin

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• Troubleshooters?" Michael asked. "When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.

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  Trouble

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.175, Penguin

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• Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too. "It's cute," I whispered to Murphy. "He has a teddy Glock.

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  Cute, Sleep, Gun

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2471, Penguin

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• If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.

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  Style, Hell, Ifs

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.3371, Penguin

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• I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.

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  Motivational, Monsters, Boots

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.249, Penguin

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• Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

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  Pain, Two, Important

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1664, Penguin

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• Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.

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  Healing, Love Is, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.136, Penguin

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• On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain.

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  Brother, Children, Jealous

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.16, Penguin

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• We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

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  Ostriches, World, Sand

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• Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Circles

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.74, Penguin Group

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• It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

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  Motorcycle, Faults, Wheels

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.152, Penguin

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• A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

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  Ego, Littles, Now And Then

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1330, Penguin

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• Murphy had found a spot on the street, which made me wonder if she didn't have some kind of magical talent after all. Only some kind of precognitive ESP could have gotten us a parking space on the street, in the shadow of a building, with both of us in sight of the apartment building's entrance.

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  Sight, Space, Shadow

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.50, Penguin

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• The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.

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  People, Perfect, Stuff

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2701, Penguin

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• Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

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  Broken, Clock

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

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• You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.

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  Organization, Goal, Clean

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin

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• in McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.

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  Order, People, Needs

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.6, Penguin

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• Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

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  Friday, Night, Painful

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.45, Penguin

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• In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.

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  Judgment, Building, Treated

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.228, Penguin

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• The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.

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  Next, Next Time, Interfere

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.127, Penguin

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• I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled.

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  Bugs, Volkswagens, Wells

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.33, Penguin Group

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• As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms." "Eh?" "Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.

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  Dark, Mushrooms, Bullshit

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.48, Penguin

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• Pretty please. With sugar.

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  Sugar, Please

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1657, Penguin

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• Demonreach only wants Harry to see what's going on." "Why doesn't it just marry him?" Thomas muttered under his breath. "It sort of did," I said. "My brother the... geosexual?

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  Brother, Want, Said

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• Tequila?" I asked him, skeptically. "Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne." "Champagne, tequila, what's the difference, so long as it'll lower her inhibitions?" Bob said. "Uh. I'm thinking it's going to get us a, um, sleazier result.

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  Thinking, Differences, Long

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.93, Penguin Group

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