Jim Butcher Quotes

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He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, "You are an untidy person.

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You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

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Well. We'll just have to hope that this wasn't a loup-garou, I guess. If it was a louper, you'd know, Bob said wisely. In the middle of this town, you'd have a dozen people dead every time the full moon came around. What's going on? A dozen people are dying every time the full moon comes around.

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I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away.

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It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right—you heard me: dead again already. I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that?

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The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

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I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.

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My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.

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Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

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That's the problem with you nearly immortal types, I said. You couldn't spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

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The door burst open. Murphy came through it, her eyes living flames of azure blue, her hair a golden coronet around her. She held a blazing sword in her hand and she shone so bright and beautiful and terrifying in her anger that it was hard to see. The Sight, I realized, dimly. I was seeing her for who she was.

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The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

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Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

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Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.

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The vampire's true appearance was grotesque—but it wasn't as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a lot worse, and some of the Elder Things could rip your mind apart just by letting you look at them

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Hello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a Komodo dragon. 'Don't you hello angel me. Do you know what I had to go through to find a baby-sitter, get all the way out here, get the money together and then get the sword back for you?

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Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

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Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.

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

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

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There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

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Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. "For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils.

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Gruff, I said, I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what's in a fae woman's mind.

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He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a.44 revolver in his pocket.

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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.

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Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.

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I admit," Morgan said with another withering look, "it's no donut.

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I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn't feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn't like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

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Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

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Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.

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