Jim Butcher Quotes
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Harry Dresden: I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.
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Quintus Cassius: I have dreamed of this night, boy.he purred, and gently stroked the side of my face with the baseball bat.Quintus Cassius: In my day, we would say that revenge is sweet. But times have changed. How do you say...? 'Payback is a bitch.'
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Harry Dresden: For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite.
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Harry Dresden: Murphy had found a spot on the street, which made me wonder if she didn't have some kind of magical talent after all. Only some kind of precognitive ESP could have gotten us a parking space on the street, in the shadow of a building, with both of us in sight of the apartment building's entrance.
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Bridges are a troll's specialty. Whether because of some magic or just because of aptitude, you never get across the bridge without facing the troll. That's life, I guess.
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Harry Dresden: Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
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Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.
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Michael Carpenter My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.
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Harry Dresden: Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.
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The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.
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Harry Dresden: Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
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Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.
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Harry Dresden: Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.
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Harry Dresden: That's Doctor Smart-ass. I didn't spend eight years in insult college to be called Mister.
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Harry Dresden: It's a place with a history, the neighbors are quiet, and my rent is cheap-though less so than it was before the demon thrashed my place.
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Harry Dresden: Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.
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Harry Dresden: This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than all of ours put together.
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Harry Dresden: You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.
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Malcolm Dresden: 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.' His fingers squeezed me tight. '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.'
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Harry Dresden: Took cover. 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.
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Harry Dresden: 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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Harry Dresden/Waldo Butters: Polka will never die!
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Listens-To-Wind 'Injun Joe': There is world that should be, and the world that is. We live in one.Ebenezer: And must create the other, if it is ever to be.
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When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.