Dresden Quotes - Page 3

• I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh.

  Jim Butcher

  Typical, Pithy, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.240, 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.

  Jim Butcher

  Art, Couple, Thinking

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

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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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• Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher

  Enough, Harry Dresden, Bizarre

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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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• 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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• 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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• The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Light, Cities, Cheerful

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?' JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.' MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Offering, Government, Justice

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• Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

  Jim Butcher

  Believe, Mean, Son

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.399, Penguin

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• Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

  Jim Butcher

  White, Nurse, Dresses

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.141, Penguin Group

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• Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

  Jim Butcher

  Believe, Skills, People

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.67, Penguin

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

  Jim Butcher

  Waiting, Want, Autobiography

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

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• I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Laughing, Scary

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.366, Penguin Group

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• A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.

  Jim Butcher

  Latin, Stupid, Kids

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.86, Penguin

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• The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

  Konrad Adenauer

  War, World, February

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• I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

  Jim Butcher

  Saving Up, White, Miles

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.331, Penguin

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• Marcone's scum... But he's his own scum.

  Jim Butcher

  Scum, Harry Dresden

  "Small Favor". Book by Jim Butcher, April 1, 2008.

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• Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

  Jim Butcher

  Venture, Failing, Instinct

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.67, Penguin Group

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

  Jim Butcher

  Perfect, Harry Dresden

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

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• Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry." I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves. Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy.

  Jim Butcher

  Crazy, Humble, Men

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• We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

  Jim Butcher

  Next, Sanity, Reason

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.112, Penguin

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• Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore." Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Evil, Done

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• They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden." He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. "You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves." He nodded slowly. "I think I like you.

  Jim Butcher

  I Like You, Laughter, Believe

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.136, Penguin

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