Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind."
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"Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get done."
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"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?"
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile."
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"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 jumping off a building."
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don't let it control them. And wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy."
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought.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."
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts."
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment"
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy."
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing."
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
"You're supposed to be a spirit of intellect. I don't understand why you're obsessed with sex."Bob's voice got defensive. "It's an academic interest, Harry."Oh yeah? Well maybe I don't think it's fair to let your academia go peeping in other people's ho"
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help. If you have not, then believe you me, it can scare the bejeezus out of you."
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle."
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts."
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
"Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect."
Jim Butcher, Storm Front
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