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• HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment

  Jim Butcher

  Party, Advice, Wizards

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.17, Penguin Group

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• Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Worry, Stories

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.191, Penguin

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• But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

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  Hero, Sacrifice, Perfect

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.167, Penguin

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• Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

  Jim Butcher

  Ignorance, Tools, Weapons

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.865, Penguin

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• Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, Chinese, Stitches

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.187, Penguin

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• There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

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  Mean, Choices, Might

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.124, Penguin

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• Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.

  Jim Butcher

  Pigs, Noses, Cows

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.2012, Penguin

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• All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.

  Jim Butcher

  Rain, Fall, Men

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Princeps' Fury”, p.418, Penguin

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• Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

  Jim Butcher

  Hate, Honor, Sometimes

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.7, Penguin

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• I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.

  Jim Butcher

  Jobs, Men, Fire

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• So we get a plan," I said. "Any suggestions?" "Blow up the building," Kincaid said without looking up. "That works good for vampires. Then soak what's left in gasoline. Set it on fire. Then blow it all up again." "For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite.

  Jim Butcher

  Blow, Fire, Vampire

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.203, Penguin

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• You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

  Jim Butcher

  Gun, Hands, Ideas

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.154, Penguin

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• A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don't let it control them. And wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.

  Jim Butcher

  Character, Men, People

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.257, Penguin Group

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• As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary

  Jim Butcher

  People, Persons, Extraordinary

  "Changes". Book by Jim Butcher, 2010.

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• Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Like Love, Style

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.251, Penguin

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• He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.

  Jim Butcher

  Pockets, Cracks, Bulls

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.131, Penguin

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• Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

  Jim Butcher

  Anger, What Matters, Choices

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1693, Penguin

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• There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Mean, Scary

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

  Jim Butcher

  Baby, Magic, Different

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.438, Penguin

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• What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Destiny, Choices

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.174, Penguin

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• Sleep is God. Go worship.

  Jim Butcher

  Sleep, Worship

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.151, Penguin Group

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• Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

  Jim Butcher

  Trying, Heroism, Pay

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.158, Penguin

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• Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

  Jim Butcher

  Life Is Too Short, Joy, Gone

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.102, Penguin

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• I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

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  Men, Twenties, Coincidence

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.74, Penguin

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• Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?

  Jim Butcher

  Heart, Forever, Darkness

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.256, Penguin

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