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“It's only paranoia if I'm wrong. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“He's a lawyer, he's a priest. This does not compute. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“I'd done a bit of research on fun things you can fire out of a shotgun, and as it turns out, there's all kinds of interesting stuff you can shoot at people. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. I'm supposed to be the Jedi. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“...I reflected that odds were that not a lot of clandestine meetings involving mystical assassination, theft of arcane power, and the balance of power in the realms of the supernatural had taken place in a Wal-Mart Super Center.”
― Jim Butcher

“It's a big universe. No one can know it all. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“I don’t make metaphors. ... I’m too busy being one. - Leanansidhe”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“Like 'love,' 'hope' is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer." (Harry Dresden - "Turn Coat")”
― Jim Butcher

“About thirty feet from the door, Molly abruptly stopped in her tracks and said, "Harry."

I paused and looked back at her.

Her eyes were wide. She said, "I sense..."

I narrowed my eyes. "Say it. You know you want to say it."

"It is not a disturbance in the Force, she said, her voice half-exasperated.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“Not sure. Using it is trickier than most people think," I said. "You've got to keep it from drying out, and you've got to get it undiluted. It was raining, so if someone wanted my blood, they'd have had to get to it pretty quick - and it looked like Sith was keeping them busy."

"Sith?" Butters asked.

"Not what you're thinking," I said.

"Oh," he said, clearly disappointed.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“The cabin door swung open and Molly belly-crawled onto the deck until she could see me. "Who started shooting at us?"

"Bad guys!" I cringed as another round hit the side of the boat and peppered me with wooden splinters. "Obviously!”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“What do you need?" Vadderung asked.

"Advice," I said. "If the price is right."

"And what do you think a sufficient price would be?"

"Lucy charges a nickel."

"Ah," Vadderung said. "But Lucy is a psychiatrist. You realize that you've just cast yourself as Charlie Brown."

"Augh," I said.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“Lean forward a little, my lord," Toot said instantly, and shouted, "Hey, Kernal Purpleweed! Come watch the Za Winter Lord Knight's back!"

I fought not to smile. "No, that's a metaphor," I said.

Toot frowned and scratched his head. "I don't know what it's for.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.”
― Jim Butcher, White Night

“Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites