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“Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.”
― Jim Butcher, White Night

“A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.”
― Jim Butcher, Academ's Fury

“I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
― Jim Butcher, White Night

“Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“If I need you I'll give you a signal.'
'What signal?'
'I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl”
― Jim Butcher

“Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“Kincaid! Bolshevik Muppet!”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“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

“Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“Hell's bells, irony blows.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.”
― Jim Butcher

“I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon—perfect.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.”
― Jim Butcher

“I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds."
"Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when you swear."
"You're right. Sorry. Holy shit," I breathed, "heckhounds.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front