Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 7

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• There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

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  Family, Home, Insane

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• Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

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  Things In Life, Harry Dresden, Worst

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.15, Penguin

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• Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

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  Kings, Temporary Insanity, Hands

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• I put the ick in magic.

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  Magic

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.15, Penguin

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• Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

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  Lying, Love You, Greatness

  Jim Butcher (2005). “Furies of Calderon”, p.332, Penguin

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• There are some people who will never understand what loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course, but they will never know.They will never see it from the inside. They couldn't imagine a world where something like that was real.

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  Loyalty, Real, Mean

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Furies Of Calderon: The Codex Alera: Book One”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.

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  Family And Friends, Cozy, Paranoia

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.51, Penguin

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• There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.

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  Spoons

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.111, Penguin

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• Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.

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  Confused, Confusing, Alternatives

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1268, Penguin

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• No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

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  Hero, Tyrants, Choices

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• Jump into an open grave? What kind of idiot are you?" Butters replied. "I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team. There's snow and ice and slippery mud down there. That's like asking for an ironically broken neck.

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  Team, Ice, Snow

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• Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing -- which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn't actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can't decide.

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  Dog, Cake, Smell

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• You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

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  Cheer, Son

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• The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

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  Wall, Way, Easy

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• Murphy nodded, frowning at the road ahead of her. "The reason treachery is so reveiled," she said in a careful tone of voice, "is because it usually comes from someone you didn't think could possibly do such a thing.

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  Thinking, Voice, Frowning

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• And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.

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  Thee, Bite Me, Thrice

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• Thank God for wisecracks.

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  Thank God, Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.56, Penguin

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• Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that.

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  Wise, Spring, Rain

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.190, Penguin

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• There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.

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  Skulls, Evil, Boss

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.117, Penguin

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• I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice. It’s the choice that counts.

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  Choices, May, Matter

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• Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

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  Thinking, Firsts, Bigots

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.80, Penguin

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• Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.

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  Sleep, Sullen, Deprivation

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.149, Penguin Group

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• Me and polite have never been on close terms.

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  Term, Polite

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.97, Penguin

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• Anyway, my office is small - one room, but on the corner, with a couple of windows. The sign on the door reads, simply, HARRY DRESDEN, WIZARD. Just inside the door is a table, covered with pamphlets with titles like: Magic and You, and Why Witches Don't Sink Any Faster Than Anyone Else - a Wizard's Perspective. I wrote most of them. I think it's important for we practitioners of the Art to keep up a good public image. Anything to avoid another Inquisition.

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  Art, Couple, Thinking

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.19, Penguin

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• You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!

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  Miracle, Harry Dresden, Workers

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.195, Penguin

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