Top 500 Jim Butcher Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “You’ve got it backward, Harry,” he said. “You are a soul. You have a body.”

— Jim Butcher

452. “Faith in what?” “That things will unfold as they are meant to,” Forthill said. “That even in the face of an immediate ugliness, the greater picture will resolve into something all the more beautiful.”

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453. “Hope lets you do things you would otherwise never be able to do, gives strength when everything is darkest. In.”

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454. “Speak, then, manling,” said Mother Winter. “You have a little time left.”

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455. “My answer came out at once. For me, chivalry isn’t dead; it’s an involuntary reflex. It could have been any woman asking for help, and I’d have said the same thing. It might have taken me a second or two longer, but I would have. For Elaine, there was no need to think about it for even that long. “I’ll help.”

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456. “It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.”

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457. “I did absolutely nothing. Carefully.”

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458. “Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.”

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459. “It gets too hot in there after a long test,” he told Ehren. “The air gets all squishy.” “It’s called humidity, Tavi,” Ehren said. “I haven’t slept in almost two days. It’s squishy.”

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460. “Dawn is significant, magically speaking. It is a time of new beginnings.”

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461. “What can I say? I put the ‘ick’ in ‘magic’.”

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462. “Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing – which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn’t actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can’t decide.”

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463. “I’ve had worse,” Michael said, his voice strained. He shifted his weight, testing the leg, and made a hissing sound – but it supported his weight. “Only a flesh wound.” “Yeah,” I said. “’Tis but a scratch. Come on, ya pansy.” He blinked and looked at me. “Pansy?” “Oh,” I said. “You weren’t quoting the movie. Sorry.” “Movie?” “Holy Grail?” “Nicodemus still has it.” I sighed. “Never mind.”

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464. “The hardest lesson a wizard has to learn is that even with so much power, there are some things you can’t control. No matter how much you want to.”

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465. “Pretty please. With sugar.”

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466. “If you want to live, if you want your friends and family to live, I expect you to do more than survive it,” Mab said, sweeping out. “I expect you to skin them alive.”

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467. “Come with me if you want to live.”

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468. “I work in grand halls and bedchambers with wine and perfume. Not in dark alleyways with cloaks and knives. I don’t like knives. I don’t even own a knife. And my cloaks are far too expensive to risk bloodying.”

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469. “If Gabriel is an ambassador, if Michael is a general, if Rafael is a healer and spiritual champion, then Uriel is a spymaster – Heaven’s spook.”

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470. “Now that I’ve got this to keep me safe off the island,” I said very quietly, “what’s to stop me from having Alfred drop you into a cell right this second, and solving my problems myself?” “I am,” Mab said. She gave me a very small, very chill smile, and held up her finger. There was a tiny droplet of my blood upon it, scarlet against her pale skin.”

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471. “You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.”

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472. “I’ve had a tense couple of days. And I’ve got to tell you, burning someone’s face off sounds like a great way to relax.”

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473. “This is what it look like when it WORKS?”

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474. “Sometimes you don’t know the most important things,” Tavi said. “You believe them.”

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475. “I snagged a golden paper crown from one of the bags, and idly joined it into a circle and put it on my head. Susan blinked at me and let out a brief laugh. ‘I am’ I intoned with an imperious narrowing of my eyes, ’the burger king.”

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476. “You can use just about anything to make a magic circle, but salt is often the most practical. It’s a symbol of the earth and of purity, and it doesn’t draw ants. You use sugar to make a circle on the carpet only once. Let me tell you.”

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477. “Duty flows uphill and down.” He.”

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478. “Life?” I suggested. She shrugged. “Desire. Loneliness. Joy. Pain.” “Life,” I said.”

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479. “Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn’t seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.”

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480. “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.”

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481. “You’d think as long as I was gambling with my soul, I would have thought to get Mab to throw in fifty bucks an hour plus expenses.”

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482. “I look at things and think about them,′ Folly replied. ‘And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply.”

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483. “You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?”

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484. “You know how to use magic?” I asked. “I prefer calculus.”

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485. “Me and polite have never been on close terms.”

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486. “Hell’s Bells-Harry Dresden.”

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487. “Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It’s multipurpose equipment.”

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488. “I don’t believe in faeries!”

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489. “It isn’t complicated. You just open up and let someone in. And whatever comes after that, you face it together.”

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490. “Predator is not property,” Grimm said in a calm, level tone. “She is not my possession. She is my home. Her crew are not my employees. They are my family. And if you threaten to take my home and destroy the livelihood of my family again, Commodore, I will be inclined to kill you where you stand.”

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491. “See, here’s the thing. Morgan was right: you can’t win them all. But that doesn’t mean that you give up. Not ever. Morgan never said that part – he was too busy living it.”

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492. “I am pure of heart and mind,” I told her. “I cannot be corrupted.”

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493. “Shame, child, is for those who fail to live up to the ideal of what they believe they should be.”

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494. “I put the ick in magic.”

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495. “But even with centuries of experience, I doubted any of them had ever been hit with a water balloon. Or with a holy-water balloon, either.”

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496. “I trust you,” she said. Three words. Big ones. Especially coming from her.”

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497. “Time, time,” Toot complained. “Is that all you mortals can ever think about? Everyone’s complaining about time! The whole city rushes left and right screaming about being late and honking horns! You people used to have it right, you know.”

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498. “I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym.”

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499. “Cowl’s apprentice was tough and competent, but no amount of training or forethought can prepare you for the sight of an angry dinosaur coming to eat your ass.”

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500. “Molly was a big believer in shaping the future by way of carrying anything you might need in a backpack.”

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