Jim Butcher quotes

I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage. (Jim Butcher)
The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault. View quote
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Harry Dresden: Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. View quote
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My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps. View quote
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As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary. View quote
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Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Harry Dresden: You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles! View quote
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Sanya, Knight of the Cross: Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. (Jim Butcher)
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. View quote
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Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions. View quote
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Harry Dresden: Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are. View quote
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I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland. View quote
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Harry Dresden: Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence. View quote
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Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style. View quote
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Sanya, Knight of the Cross: There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity. View quote
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Harry Dresden: Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night. View quote
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Harry Dresden: Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint. View quote
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Harry Dresden: 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. (Jim Butcher)
Harry Dresden: We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain. View quote
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When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files. View quote
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Harry Dresden: A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably. View quote
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The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you. View quote
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