Jim Butcher: Trending quotes (page 11)

“Harry Dresden: I can't believe I'm about to say this. So think real careful about where this is coming from: Have you people ever considered talking when you've got a problem?”

“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 ofmy life must be really low-budget.”

“Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return.”

“I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.”

“I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.”

“I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly."
~Harry Dresden”

“Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.”

“Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.”

“Pansy," Murphy sneered.

Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.”

“Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.”

“You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame."

Sanya to Dresden”

“A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.”

“You think this is going to work? This peaceful summit thing?”
“Sure,” I said. After a second, I added, “Probably.”
“Probably?”
“Maybe,” I said.
“We’re down to maybe now?”
I shrugged. “We’ll see.”

“Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.”

“I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.”

“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”

“One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.”

“At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.”

“Knowledge is your weapon… Kill them with it.”