Quotes from book
Blood Rites

Name: Blood Rites
Author: Jim Butcher

Blood Rites is the 6th book in The Dresden Files, Jim Butcher's continuing series about wizard detective Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden.

“Harry Dresden: The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: The Dresden Files, Blood Rites (2004), Chapter 1, Opening Line

“Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.”

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“Thomas Raith: An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: The Dresden Files, Blood Rites (2004)

“Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”

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“Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."

Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.”

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“Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!”

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“Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.”

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“Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.”

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“Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.”

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“Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.”

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“Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.”

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“I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.”

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“Hell's bells, irony blows.”

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“I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.”

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“A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.”

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“Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.”

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

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