Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 4

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• Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

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  Land, Healthy, Denial

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.24, Penguin

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• There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear.

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  Wall, Night, Light

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.260, Penguin

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• Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

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  Evil, Metrics, Metric System

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• Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

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  Weapons

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• Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

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  Mean, Too Much, Small Words

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.591, 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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• I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.

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  Children, Mean, Men

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.145, Penguin

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• Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

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  Children, Kids, Perfect

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin Group

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• Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.

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  Love, Two, People

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

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• I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.

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  Shoes, Magic, Routine

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.111, Penguin

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• Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said. "It is today.

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  Mean, Definitions, Today

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.252, Hachette UK

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• Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

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  Relationship, Block, Caring

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2343, Penguin

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• People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

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  Dog, People, Stories

  Jim Butcher (2010). “White Night: The Dresden Files, Book Nine”, p.183, Hachette UK

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• My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.

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  Heart, People, Darkness

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.221, Penguin

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• God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

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  Good Life, Exercise, Choices

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Side Jobs: Stories From The Dresden Files: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise.

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  Dark, Thinking, Promise

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.16, Penguin

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• There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

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  Sarcasm, Should, Throwing

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.237, Penguin

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• Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.

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  Pain, Doe, Ends

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.89, Penguin

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• Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Passion, Tyrants

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1694, Penguin

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• My gast was pretty well flabbered.

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  Wells

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.188, Penguin

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• Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.

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  Jobs, Work, Games

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.14, Penguin

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• There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

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  Thinking, Doe, Sanity

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.213, Penguin

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• It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.

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  Daughter, Mother, Eggs

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• We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

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  Motivational, Eye, Stubborn

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Dead Beat: The Dresden Files, Book Seven”, p.270, Hachette UK

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• Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked. I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different." "Isn't she Catholic?" Thomas asked. "Don't they have a guy?

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  Real, Men, Order

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.193, Hachette UK

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