Jim Butcher

Author

1971-10-26

Quotes by Jim Butcher

• But all I said was that I was scared. After what you got to experience? That's smart, kid, I said. I'm scared, too. Every time something like this happens, it scares me. But being strong doesn't get you through. Being smart does. I've beaten people and things who were stronger than I was, because they didn't use their heads, or because I used what I had better than they did. It isn't about muscle, kiddo, magical or otherwise. It's about your attitude. About your mind. She nodded slowly and said, About doing things for the right reasons. You don't throw down like this just because you're strong enough to do it, I said. You do it because you don't have much choice. You do it because it's unacceptable to walk away, and still live with yourself later. She stared at me for a second, and then her eyes widened. Otherwise, you're using power for the sake of using power. I nodded. And power tends to corrupt. It isn't hard to love using it, Molly. You've got to go in with the right attitude or Or the power starts using you, she said. She'd heard the argument before, but this was the first time she said the words slowly, thoughtfully, as if she'd actually understood them, instead of just parroting them back to me. Then she looked up. That's why you do it. Why you help people. You're using the power for someone other than yourself.

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• Id me didn't have to be concerned with long-term consequences. He was my instinctive, primitive self, driven by my most primal impulses. I wondered, briefly, if 'id' and 'idiot' came from the same root.

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• If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment, Murphy interrupted, I will break your arm in eleven places.

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• It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.

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• I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.

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• Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I'm a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers–all that sort of thing.

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• Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.

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• Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.

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• Epic sex? I sputtered. By what standards, precisely, is sex judged to be epic?And tons and tons of mortal simps like you used as pawns. Bob sighed happily, ignoring my question. There are no words. It was like the Lord of the Rings and All My Children made a baby with the Macho Man Randy Savage and a Whac-A-Mole machine.

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• You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If so, then face them and overcome them. Until then, pay them no mind. You have enough to think on.

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• There is but one reality, that is true -- but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster.

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• Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.Constructive anger, the demon said, her voice dripping sarcasm. Also known as passion, I said quietly. Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

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• Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day.

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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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• Like —love,— —hope— is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

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• Molly was arrested. Possession.— I blinked at him. —She was possessed?

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• There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.

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• The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

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• I hate what you represent.... Power without conviction. Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

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• 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.

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