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#1

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen

#2

“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

tags: demon, paranoia, paranoid

1482 likes

#3

“I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

591 likes

#4

“Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now. ”
― Jim Butcher

tags: dresden-files-books

444 likes

#5

“You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

tags: evil, good, good-and-evil, humor, morality

265 likes

#6

“The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

tags: harry-dresden

563 likes

#7

“I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.”
― jim butcher, Summer Knight

tags: harry-dresden, humor

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#8

“Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.”
― Jim Butcher

tags: evil, harry-dresden, molly-carpenter

443 likes

#9

“You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

tags: america, diplomacy

486 likes

#10

“Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

tags: humor, impudence, sarcasm, smartass

2104 likes

#11

“The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

tags: humanity, people, psychology, sanity

594 likes

#12

“We are not going to die."

Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?"

"No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: harry-dresden, humor, motivation, optimism, thomas-raith, waldo-butters

744 likes

#13

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

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#14

“You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

tags: elaine-mallory, harry-dresden, humor

474 likes

#15

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

tags: witty

169 likes

#16

“Sleep is God. Go worship.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

tags: sleep

607 likes

#17

“So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

tags: atheism, harry-dresden, humor, sanya

353 likes

#18

“I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

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#19

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

tags: harry-dresden, humor, lara-raith

137 likes

#20

“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

350 likes

#21

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

tags: harry-dresden, humor, irony

152 likes

#22

“You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

tags: harry-dresden, humor

220 likes

#23

“Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: death, harry-dresden, life

355 likes

#24

“In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: harry-dresden, heroism, humor

253 likes

#25

“Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

tags: harry-dresden, humor, waldo-butters

125 likes

#26

“Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: harry-dresden, heroism, humor

193 likes

#27

“Bite me, faerie fruitcake.”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

tags: harry-dresden, humor

111 likes

#28

“There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

tags: harry-dresden, life

252 likes

#29

“I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

77 likes

#30

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

tags: humor, thomas-raith, vanity

102 likes

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