Jim Butcher Quotes

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry—" Assault formation!

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Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that.

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He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan

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The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

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There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear....

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Troubleshooters?" Michael asked. "When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.

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He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

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Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

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I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.

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I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

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When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.

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Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

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Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

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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.

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