Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 2

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• Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

  Jim Butcher

  Magic, Together, Spells

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

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• Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Guy, Warning

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.359, Penguin

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• Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

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  Crazy, Fighting, Thinking

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.87, Hachette UK

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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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• Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

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  Running, Fun, Long

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• Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love.

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  Sex, Powerful, Hands

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.262, 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.

  Jim Butcher

  Hero, Sacrifice, Perfect

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

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• The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

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  Fire, Faults, Building

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.8, Penguin

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• We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.

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  Way, Pursuit, Something You Love

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.363, Penguin Group

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• He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

  Jim Butcher

  Stupid, Black, World

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.341, 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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• Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

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  Stars, Chinese, Stitches

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

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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.

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  Mean, Worry, Stories

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

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• Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

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  Rights, Like Love, Hope Love

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.215, Penguin

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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

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  Party, Advice, Wizards

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

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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.

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  Character, Men, People

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

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

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  Hate, Honor, Sometimes

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

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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.

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  Blow, Fire, Vampire

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.203, 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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• As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary

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  People, Persons, Extraordinary

  "Changes". Book by Jim Butcher, 2010.

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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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• 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.

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  Baby, Magic, Different

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

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• Sleep is God. Go worship.

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  Sleep, Worship

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

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• You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

  Jim Butcher

  Cat, Shopping, Bird

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin

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