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“Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

Feeling , Intelligence

“You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.”

Jim Butcher Small Favor

Source: Small Favor

Music

“I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: Death Masks

Fools , Knowledge , Thinking , Universe

“Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'…… Harry Dresden”

Jim Butcher Small Favor

Source: Small Favor

“Don'tthe Lord, Harry. It's disrespectful.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

“Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore."

Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

Evil

“I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions.
But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice.
It’s the choice that counts.”

Jim Butcher book Ghost Story

Source: Ghost Story

“Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.”

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

Stupidity , World , School , Strong

“For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life." I called power into my blasting rod, and its tip glowed incandescent white. "The way I see it, there's nothing else worth fighting a war for.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

Love , Life , War , Way

“Tavi grinned. "Are you with me?"
"The plan is insane," Ehren said. "YOU are insane." He looked around the inside of the tent. "I'll need some pants.”

Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Source: Captain's Fury

“Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

Sex , Revenge

“Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.”

Jim Butcher

Source: Many Bloody Returns

Time , Night

“The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.”

Jim Butcher book Ghost Story

Source: Ghost Story

“This is what it look like when it WORKS?”

Jim Butcher book Cursor's Fury

Source: Cursor's Fury

“Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.”

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

Source: Summer Knight

People , Evil

“You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

Victory

“I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

Source: Storm Front

Thinking

“Harry Dresden: The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the hell. "I don't believe in faeries!"”

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

Source: The Dresden Files, Summer Knight (2002), Chapter 31

Hell , Cry

“Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 26
Context: Harry Dresden: But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn’t about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn’t about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It’s about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It’s about making sacrifices for the good of others—even when there’s not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

Faith