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The Dresden Files

Jim Butcher

The Dresden Files is a series of contemporary fantasy/mystery novels written by American author Jim Butcher. The first novel, Storm Front, was published in 2000 by Roc Books.

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“Harry Dresden: You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.”

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The Dresden Files, Changes (2010)

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“Harry Dresden: It’s not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They’re basically huge vibrators. With wheels.”

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The Dresden Files, Blood Rites (2004)

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“Johnny Marcone: Do you know what I think?
Harry Dresden: You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.
Marcone: Yes. I drew my gun.
Harry Dresden: Okay.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Death Masks (2003), Chapter 32

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“Harry Dresden: On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005), Chapter 1, opening lines

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“Marcone: In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.”

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The Dresden Files, White Night (2007)

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“Harry Dresden: In McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Fool Moon (2001), Chapter 1

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“Harry Dresden: Murphy had found a spot on the street, which made me wonder if she didn't have some kind of magical talent after all. Only some kind of precognitive ESP could have gotten us a parking space on the street, in the shadow of a building, with both of us in sight of the apartment building's entrance.”

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The Dresden Files, White Night (2007)

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“Harry Dresden: You can never tell how someone is going to handle power — not until you hand it to them and see what they do with it.”

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The Dresden Files, Proven Guilty (2006)

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“Michael Carpenter: Lord, we walk into darkness now. Our enemies will surround us. Please help to make us strong enough to do what needs to be done. Amen.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Grave Peril (2001), Chapter 24

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“Queen Mab: For love men will mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For Love, man will destroy himself, and do so willingly.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 30

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“Harry Dresden: Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Fool Moon (2001), Chapter 1

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“Harry Dresden: This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than all of ours put together.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Turn Coat (2009), Chapter 49

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“Harry Dresden: It's a place with a history, the neighbors are quiet, and my rent is cheap—though less so than it was before the demon thrashed my place.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Fool Moon (2001), Chapter 7

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“Karrin Murphy: Yes, Your honor, your victim was killed by a werewolf.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Fool Moon (2001), Chapter 2

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“Harry Dresden: The U. S. isn’t a perfect place, but it’s better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Turn Coat (2009), Chapter 28

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“Susan Rodriguez: Harry, have you ever heard of the paperless office?
Harry Dresden: Yeah. It's like Bigfoot. Someone says he knows someone who saw him, but you don't ever actually see him yourself.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 17

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“Harry Dresden: We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, White Night (2007), Chapter 26

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“Harry Dresden: Pretty sure that Roman Catholic priests don't have peeps. Too trendy and ephemeral. Like automobiles. And the printing press.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 14

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“Harry Dresden: The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 10

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“Harry Dresden: Tequila? Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne.
Bob: Champagne, tequila, what's the difference, so long as it'll lower her inhibitions?
Harry Dresden: Uh, I'm thinking it's going to get us a, um, sleazier result.”

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Source: The Dresden Files, Storm Front (2000), Chapter 8