Jim Butcher Quotes

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Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way

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Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes.

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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.

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There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

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Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

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Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.

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It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.

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Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow. You? A Princess Bride quote? I croaked. What is that? she asked.

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The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

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Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

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All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

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Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.

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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.

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Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.

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Tequila?" I asked him, skeptically. "Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne." "Champagne, tequila, what's the difference, so long as it'll lower her inhibitions?" Bob said. "Uh. I'm thinking it's going to get us a, um, sleazier result.

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The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.

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I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled...

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Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love.

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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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Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

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When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

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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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The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

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In McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.

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The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.

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Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

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I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

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Souls, I said. I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence just this body? Is there really something more? Do I really have a soul?Uriel's smile blossomed again. You've got it backward, Harry, he said. You are a soul. You have a body.

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I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.

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Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

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