Jim Butcher citations

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“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.”

“Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.”

“You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.”

“I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym.”

“There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.”

“All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.”

“Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.”

“For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.”

“Do you want your blood to stay where it is sochar-lar?"
Tavi lifted both eyebrows at the unfamiliar word, and glanced at Varg.
"Monkey," Varg supplied, in Aleran. "And male-child."
"He called me monkey boy?" Tavi asked.”

“This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.”

“Harry Dresden: As a whole, people suck, but a person can be extraordinary.”

“Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.”

“Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.”
“Well,” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.”

“The Blue Beetle was not a clown car," I said severely. "It was a machine of justice.”

“I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.”

“You know the law, Dresden."
"He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.”

“I can't be under arrest now… I don't have time.”

“Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.”

“My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.”

“Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.”

“Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.”