Dresden Quotes - Page 2

• See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

  Jim Butcher

  Religious, Long, Mouths

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

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• Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Circles, Giving

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.3270, Penguin

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• Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

  Jim Butcher

  Heroism, World, Saving

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.173, Penguin

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• I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, Children, Book

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.362, Penguin

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• I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.

  Jim Butcher

  Harry Dresden, Psychotic, Wannabes

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.213, Penguin

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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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• It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Communication, Land

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Faces, Demon

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.22, Penguin Group

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• Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wisdom, Anger

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 3 (1954)

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• Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

  Unknown

  Funny, Life, Halloween

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• At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city,
  Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made,
  They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,)
  A music club and music warehouse pretty.

  Heinrich Heine

  Cities, Clubs, May

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.21

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• Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

  Jim Butcher

  Pain, Two, Important

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1664, Penguin

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• Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar

  Jim Butcher

  Life, Journey, Doors

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.150, Penguin

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

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Doe, Sanity

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.213, 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. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize there are more flavors of pain than coffee. Pain does two things: it teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. And everything that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one way or another.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Growing Up, Pain

  "White Night". Book by Jim Butcher, 2007.

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• A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don't let it control them. And wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.

  Jim Butcher

  Character, Men, People

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

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• I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me that took a dark joy in gathering all the power it could and using it as I saw fit, everything else be damned. There was power to be had in hatred, too, in anger and in lust, in selfishness and in pride. 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, Believe, Pride

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

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• HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment

  Jim Butcher

  Party, Advice, Wizards

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.17, Penguin Group

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• I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.

  Jim Butcher

  Children, Skulls, Battle

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.65, Penguin

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• Thank God for wisecracks.

  Jim Butcher

  Thank God

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

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• Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Dark, Potters

  Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Blood Lite: An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories Presented by the Horror Writers Association”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Comforting, Dental

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• For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there's more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn't be out in the open, and they're covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time." Harry Dresden, Turn Coat.

  Jim Butcher

  Blood, Parent, Naked

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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.

  Jim Butcher

  Art, Couple, Thinking

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

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• Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.

  Jim Butcher

  Night, Two, Shooting

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs”, p.79, Penguin

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