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Jim Butcher – amerykański pisarz literatury fantastycznej.

Jim Butcher uznawany jest przez „New York Times” za jednego najlepiej sprzedających się pisarzy fantasy w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Swoją popularność zdobył dwoma cyklami fantasy: Akta Harry’ego Dresdena oraz Codex Alera.

Ma dwie starsze siostry. Obecnie mieszka w Independence wraz ze swoją żoną Shannon K. Butcher i synem Jamesem Josephem oraz psem obronnym Frostbitem Vondoomem. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Październik 1971
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Jim Butcher cytaty

„Otwarte oczy przynoszą mało pożytku, jeżeli umysł za nimi jest zamknięty.”

Jim Butcher

Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed. (ang.)
Źródło: Princep's Fury (2008) z serii Codex Alera

Jim Butcher: Cytaty po angielsku

“Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.”

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Jim Butcher książka Small Favor

Źródło: Small Favor

“No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.”

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Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Źródło: Proven Guilty

“Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness.

Sometimes it is comforting.

Most often, it isn't.”

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Jim Butcher książka Storm Front

Źródło: Storm Front

“Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.”

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Jim Butcher książka White Night

Źródło: White Night

“As far as the Council is concerned, the U. S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms."
"Eh?"
"Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.”

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Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Źródło: Turn Coat

“If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.”

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Jim Butcher książka White Night

Źródło: White Night

“I put the ick in magic.”

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Jim Butcher książka Death Masks

Źródło: Death Masks

“Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell."

I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.”

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Jim Butcher książka Cold Days

Źródło: Cold Days

“There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.”

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Jim Butcher książka Grave Peril

Źródło: Grave Peril

“But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.”

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Jim Butcher książka Grave Peril

Źródło: Grave Peril

“Tiny, but fierce!”

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Jim Butcher

“Jump into an open grave? What kind of idiot are you?" Butters replied. "I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team. There's snow and ice and slippery mud down there. That's like asking for an ironically broken neck.”

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Jim Butcher książka Ghost Story

Źródło: Ghost Story

“Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.”

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Jim Butcher książka Blood Rites

Źródło: Blood Rites

“You can be as sincere as hell and still be wrong.”

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Jim Butcher książka Small Favor

Źródło: Small Favor

“Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.”

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Jim Butcher książka Cold Days

Źródło: Cold Days

“Do you know my dog's name?
[…]
"It is from an ancient word, kerberos. It means 'spotted.'"

I blinked. "You're a genuine Greek god. You're the Lord of the Underworld. And… you named your dog *Spot*?”

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Jim Butcher książka Skin Game

Źródło: Skin Game

“Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.”

“You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked.

“What is that?” she asked.”

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Jim Butcher książka Cold Days

Źródło: Cold Days

“My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away.
Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?”

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Jim Butcher książka Storm Front

Źródło: Storm Front

“Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. "Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!" he shouted, pointing at Doroga. "He followed me home! Can we keep him?”

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Jim Butcher Furies of Calderon

Źródło: Furies of Calderon

“You destroy buildings, fight monsters openly in the streets of the city, work with the police, show up in newspapers, advertise in the phone book, and ride zombie dinosaurs down Michigan Avenue, and think that you work in the shadows? Be reasonable.”

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Jim Butcher książka Skin Game

Źródło: Skin Game

“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?”

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Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Źródło: The Dresden Files, Turn Coat (2009), Chapter 23

“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.”

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Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Źródło: Dead Beat

“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.”

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Jim Butcher książka Changes

Źródło: Changes

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

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Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Źródło: Turn Coat

“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.”

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Jim Butcher książka Changes

Źródło: Changes

“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”

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Jim Butcher

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

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Jim Butcher książka Fool Moon

Źródło: Fool Moon

“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.”

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Jim Butcher książka White Night

Źródło: White Night

“Pansy," Murphy sneered.

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

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Jim Butcher książka Changes

Źródło: Changes