Karrin Murphy Quotes

• A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes.

  Jim Butcher

  Gratitude, Courage, Hero

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

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• My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do.

  Jim Butcher

  Girl, Monsters, Littles

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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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• I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.

  Jim Butcher

  Motivational, Monsters, Boots

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.249, 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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• Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original." Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, Children, War

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.147, Penguin

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• If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

  Jim Butcher

  Arms, Judgment, Break

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.3290, 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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• Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked. I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different." "Isn't she Catholic?" Thomas asked. "Don't they have a guy?

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Men, Order

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.193, Hachette UK

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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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• It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

  Jim Butcher

  Motorcycle, Faults, Wheels

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.152, Penguin

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• Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.

  Jim Butcher

  Sea, Laughing, Enemy

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.324, Penguin

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