Quotes by Jim Butcher

About Jim Butcher:

Jim Butcher is a New York Times best selling author best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He also wrote the Codex Alera series.
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You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!

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Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

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They'd paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. Maybe it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of these gorillas who has learned to paint. The ...

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Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

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Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

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Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

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...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse, just to occupy my thoughts, but he was suffering enough without being forced to endure Dickens, even by proxy.

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When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like ...

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Magic. It can get a guy killed.

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You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

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HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment

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A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of them made a chittering sound that wasn't very melodic. The other twitched its tail and splashed a little water our way, all in good fun. Th...

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She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?

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At one time in my life, a shapeshifted, demonically possessed maniac crashing through a window and trying to rip my face off would have come as an enormous and nasty surprise. But that time was pretty much in the past.

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Dresden’s not gone,” I said. I touched a hand lightly to my brow. “He’s here.” I touched Will’s bare chest, on the left side. “Here. Without him, without what he’s done over the years, you and I would never have been able to pull this...

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A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

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I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

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Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

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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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And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago?

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You already beat yourself up for enough things that aren't your fault. People who care don't want to add to that." He paused, and then added gently, "But you assumed it was about you." I finished the beer and sighed. "Arrogance," I said."I feel stupi...

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Author Bio

  • NameJim Butcher
  • Descriptionauthor from the USA
  • BornOctober 26, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist
  • WorksThe Dresden Files; Codex Alera