Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 8

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• Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.

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  Pain, Heart, Cutting

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• I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.

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  Wise, Heart, Mean

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1685, Penguin

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• It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.

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  Jingles, Sandwiches, Submarines

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.88, Penguin

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• Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.

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  Fall, Night, Claws

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• So in addition to a feisty new Black Court partner in the war dance between the Council and the Vampire Courts, I also got angry lust bunny movies stars, deadly curses, and a thoroughly embarrassing job as my investigative cover. Oh, and bean curd pizza, which is just wrong. What a mess. I made a mental note: The next time I saw Thomas, I was going to punch him right in the nose.

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  Stars, Jobs, War

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• Ah. Medieval-style ransom.” Toot looked confused. “He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.” There were several conspicuous sounds behind me, the loudest from my apprentice, and I turned to eye everyone else. They were all either covering smiles or holding them back— poorly. “Hey, peanut gallery,” I said. “This isn’t as easy as I’m making it look.” “You’re doing fine,” Karrin said, her eyes twinkling. I sighed. “Come on, Toot,” I said, and walked over to Hook.

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  Running, Confused, Eye

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• I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.

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  Mortgage, Muse

  "'More of us should be hated and feared by our readers!'". The Fantasy Writers panel at NYCC, www.tor.com. October 9, 2010.

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• Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to overcome darkness.

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  Love, Hero, Dark

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• Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.

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  Divergent, Viewpoints, Way

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.181, Penguin

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• Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

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  Sometimes, Smartass

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• Death is only frightening from the near side.

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  Sides, Dresden Files, Frightening

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.122, Penguin

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• We're always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down.

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  Stupid, Way, Limits

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2136, Penguin

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• Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.

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  Sex, Children, Book

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin

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• Better safe than exsanguinated.

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  Safe

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.47, Penguin Group

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• My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ' 'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher

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  Children, Skulls, Drawing

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• Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

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  Writing, Monsters, Littles

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.269, Penguin

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• All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.

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  Winter, Knights, Harry Dresden

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• Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.

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  Perfect, Harry Dresden, Dresden

  Jim Butcher, Kat Richardson, Simon R. Green, Thomas E. Sniegoski (2009). “Mean Streets”, p.34, Penguin

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• It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

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  White, Toads, Towns

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.10, Penguin

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• Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster’s mind.

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  Imagination, Magic, Mind

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.94, Penguin

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• The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

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  Evil, Doe, Distinction

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book Thirteen”, p.317, Hachette UK

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• Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.

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  Waiting, Want, Autobiography

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.220, Penguin

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• So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

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  Atheist, Fighting, Evil

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.85, Penguin Group

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• Vanity, thy name is vampire.

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  Vanity, Names, Vampire

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.236, Penguin

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• Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.

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  Ears, Spirit, Ass

  "Small Favor". Book by Jim Butcher, 2008.

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