Quotes from work
Proven Guilty

Proven Guilty is the 8th book in The Dresden Files, Jim Butcher's continuing series about wizard detective Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Proven Guilty had a release date of May 2, 2006.

“Harry Dresden: I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: The Dresden Files, Proven Guilty (2006)

“Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

“Vanity, thy name is vampire.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

“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

“Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

“Molly was arrested. Possession.”
I blinked at him. “She was possessed?”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

“I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

“… you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

“You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

“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.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

“Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.”

“Why?” she asked.

“Well. I met him,” I said.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

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

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

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