Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 20

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• You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

  Jim Butcher

  Jesus, Victory, Complicated

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.139, Penguin

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• You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.

  Jim Butcher

  Cheer, Spring, Beer

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.115, Penguin

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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.

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Differences, Long

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

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• The door burst open. Murphy came through it, her eyes living flames of azure blue, her hair a golden coronet around her. She held a blazing sword in her hand and she shone so bright and beautiful and terrifying in her anger that it was hard to see. The Sight, I realized, dimly. I was seeing her for who she was.

  Jim Butcher

  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.733, Penguin

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• Thank God for imminent doomsday.

  Jim Butcher

  Thank God, Doomsday

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.175, Penguin

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• I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!

  Jim Butcher

  Frustration, Skulls, Clubs

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• I admit," Morgan said with another withering look, "it's no donut.

  Jim Butcher

  Looks, Said, Donuts

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.128, Penguin

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• I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.

  Jim Butcher

  Car, Poison, Bombs

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.309, Penguin

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• Mab turned back to me and eyed me up and down. She quirked one eyebrow, very slightly, somehow conveying layers of disapproval toward multiple aspects of my appearance, conduct, and situation, and said, 'Finally.' 'There’s been a lot on my mind,' I replied. 'It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten,' Queen Mab replied. 'Improve your mind.'

  Jim Butcher

  Queens, Eyebrows, Mind

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• He’s being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven,” Thomas said. “I figured he couldn’t jigger his way out of a bunch of steel, and it would give him something to think about before we start asking questions.” “That’s an awful thing to do to one of the Little Folk, man,” I said. “I’m planning to start making a pie in front of him.” “Nice.” “Thank you.

  Jim Butcher

  Nice, Men, Thinking

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• All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.

  Jim Butcher

  Giving, Choices, Political

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.258, Penguin

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• We're all so damned fragile.

  Jim Butcher

  Fragile

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.206, Penguin

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• You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.

  Jim Butcher

  Answers, Captains, Should

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Captain's Fury: The Codex Alera: Book Four”, p.382, Hachette UK

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• The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.

  Jim Butcher

  Creepy, Godmother, Harry Dresden

  "Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book Thirteen". Book by Jim Butcher, July 28, 2011.

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• A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

  Jim Butcher

  Behinds, Prepared, Technicalities

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.80, Penguin Group

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• Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?

  Jim Butcher

  Possession, Arrested, Possessed

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.81, Penguin

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• but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn't changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would.

  Jim Butcher

  War, Technology, Disease

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.14, Penguin

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• There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

  Jim Butcher

  Character, Men, Way

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

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• You're a cop. I need a doughnut.

  Jim Butcher

  Needs, Cop, Doughnut

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.46, Penguin

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• Magic. It can get a guy killed.

  Jim Butcher

  Guy, Magic, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book Thirteen”, Hachette UK

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