Dresden Quotes

• In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

  Jim Butcher

  Motivational, Names, Lord

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.357, Penguin

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• When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

  Jim Butcher

  Inspirational, Family, Parenting

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.304, Penguin

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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.

  Jim Butcher

  Motivational, Eye, Stubborn

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

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• In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

  Jim Butcher

  Heroism, Want, Action

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.494, Penguin

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• Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

  Jim Butcher

  Witty, Fearless, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.29, Penguin

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• Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Laughing, Sanity

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.217, Penguin

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

  Jim Butcher

  Fire, Faults, Building

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

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• Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

  Jim Butcher

  Life Is Too Short, Joy, Gone

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.102, Penguin

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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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• Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.

  Jim Butcher

  Morning, Brother, Breakfast

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.59, Penguin

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• Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Growing Up, Moving

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.248, Penguin

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• And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos

  Jim Butcher

  Fun, Dark, Long

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

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• The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

  Donald James

  Self, Perfect, Historical

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• Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't somebody watching.

  Patrick Carman

  Mean, Paranoia, Dresden Files

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• Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost.

  Jim Butcher

  Glasses, Principles, Lines

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.12, Penguin

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• ...the Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?

  Jim Butcher

  Beer, Men, Makeup

  "Changes". Book by Jim Butcher, April 6, 2010.

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• Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcone inquired. "The plural could be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural.

  Jim Butcher

  Art, Latin, Believe

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1694, Penguin

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• I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

  Jim Butcher

  Errors, Heaven, Harry Dresden

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• I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Women, Heart

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.141, Penguin

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• When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Truth, Lying, Democracies Have

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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?

  Jim Butcher

  Atheist, Fighting, Evil

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

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• Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

  Jim Butcher

  Would Be, Answers, Dull

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.195, Penguin Group

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• There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

  Jim Butcher

  Hands, Touching You, Knowing

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1584, Penguin

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• Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

  Jim Butcher

  Inspirational, Pain, Important

  "White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9)". Book by Jim Butcher, April 3, 2007.

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• I don't believe in faeries!

  Jim Butcher

  Believe, Harry Dresden, Faerie

  "Summer Knight". Book by Jim Butcher, 2002.

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