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“Harry Dresden: 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.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Turn Coat (2009), Chapter 28

People , Perfection

“Susan Rodriguez: Harry, have you ever heard of the paperless office?
Harry Dresden: Yeah. It's like Bigfoot. Someone says he knows someone who saw him, but you don't ever actually see him yourself.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 17

“Harry Dresden: We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, White Night (2007), Chapter 26

Pain

“Harry Dresden: Pretty sure that Roman Catholic priests don't have peeps. Too trendy and ephemeral. Like automobiles. And the printing press.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 14

“Harry Dresden: The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 10

Feeling

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

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Storm Front (2000), Chapter 8

Love , Thinking

“Listens-To-Wind "Injun Joe": There is world that should be, and the world that is. We live in one.
Ebenezer: And must create the other, if it is ever to be.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

The Dresden Files, Turn Coat (2009)

World

“Harry Dresden: Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 33

Way , Feeling , Problem , Time

“Harry Dresden: Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, White Night (2007), Chapter 31

Life , Pain , Music , Way

“He who kills the cheer springs for beer.”

Jim Butcher book Day Off

The Dresden Files short stories, Day Off

Spring , Beer

“Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.”

Jim Butcher Codex Alera

Codex Alera, First Lord's Fury (2009)

Life

“Harry Dresden: 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 the darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear. Get a good ways out from civilization-say, miles and miles away on a lightless lake-and the darkness is there, waiting. Twilight means more than just time to call the children in from playing outside. Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood. Night is when unseen beings with no regard for what our people have built and no place in what we have deemed the natural order look in at our world from outside, and think dark and alien thoughts. And sometimes, just sometimes, they do things.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Turn Coat (2009), Chapter 40

Children , People , World , Fear

“Waldo Butters: Screw up my life?
[He stared a me for a second and then said, deadpan]
Waldo Butters: I’m a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow.
[He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said]
Waldo Butters: Do your worst.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005), Chapter 5

Life

“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.”

Jim Butcher

A Conversation With Jim Butcher, The SF Site, McCune, Alisa, 2004, 2008-02-04 http://www.sfsite.com/08b/jb182.htm,

Books

“Harry Dresden: A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

The Dresden Files, White Night (2007)

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

Jim Butcher book Day Off

Character: "Darth Wannabe"
The Dresden Files short stories, Day Off

Time

“Harry Dresden: Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005)

“Harry Dresden: Death is only frightening from the near side.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Ghost Story (2011), Chapter 14

Death

“Harry Dresden: Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Turn Coat (2009), Chapter 47