The Dresden Files Books 7-12 Quotes

“growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you’re just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“I’ll give the rat his due—he’s got balls that drag the ground when he walks.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“Death isn’t something anyone likes to think about, but the fact is that you can’t get out of it. No matter what you do, how much you exercise, how religiously you diet, or meditate, or pray, or how much money you donate to your church, there is a single hard, cold fact that faces everyone on earth: One day it’s going to be over. One day the sun will rise, the world will turn, people will go about their daily routines—only you won’t be in it. You’ll be still. And cold.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“Knowledge counters fear. It always has.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don’t want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“As a race, we’re an enormous bunch of idiots. We’re more than capable of ignoring facts if the conclusions they lead to make us too uncomfortable. Or afraid.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“We still hadn’t learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you’re just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There’s the little empty pain of leaving something behind—graduating, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There’s the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expectations. There’s the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn’t give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life as they grow and learn. There’s the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens. And if you’re very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realize that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last—and yet will remain with you for life. Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don’t feel it.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“There are some basic tenets that ninety-nine percent of all Wiccans follow, but at its core the faith is all about individual freedom. Wiccans believe that as long as you aren't hurting anyone else by doing it, you should be free to act and worship in whatever way you'd like.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“he got any bigger, he’d need a building permit.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“Tylenol 3 is good stuff, but it is also illegal stuff to have without a prescription if you aren’t Canadian, so it was currently buried in my godmother’s insane garden. I took a big dose of Tylenol the original, since I didn’t have my Tylenol 3 or its lesser-known, short-lived cousin, Tylenol Two: The Pain Strikes Back.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“My world would be a scarier place without you in it.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“read your book, by the way,” I said. He looked up at me and then back down. He slapped a binder open. “The one about the Erlking?” I said. “The collected poems and essays?” He took a folder out of the binder, his back stiff. “The Warden from Bremen said you got the German wrong on the title,” I continued. “That must have been kind of embarrassing, huh? I mean, it’s been published for like a hundred years or something. Must eat at you.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“No, thanks. Aren’t you supposed to drink vodka?” “Aren’t you supposed to wear pointy hat and ride on flying broomstick?” “Touché,” I said.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“I smiled faintly and closed my eyes. “I thought you’d say that.” “Shut up, Harry.” “Okay,” I said. And I did. For hours. It was glorious.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“Holy crap!” Thomas yelled. “Ack!” I agreed.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“I wondered if the angelic tongue had swear words, or if they just said nice words backward or something. Doog! Teews doog!”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do,” I said.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“So,” he said, starting down the street. “What’s the plan?” I told him. “That is a bad plan,” he said. “There wasn’t time for a good one.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“To the untrained eye, it probably looked like I was just cowering and pulling my duster up to cover my head, but it was actually part of a cunning master plan designed to let me survive the next three or four seconds.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“I screamed in order to summon up my primal reserves and to intimidate Madrigal into missing me, and definitely not because I was terrified.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“God knows all things at all times. By His very nature, his omniscience enables Him to know what has happened, is happening, and will happen. Though we might not be able to see His reasons, or to agree with them from our perspectives, they are yet there.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“This is not how diplomacy is done,” Anastasia said as we approached the Château Raith. “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, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don’t feel it. Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you’re alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“Everyone dies, honey,” I said, very quietly. “Everyone. There’s no ‘if.’ There’s only ‘when.’ ” I let that sink in for a moment. “When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you’ve done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“Most people will be honest. And incorrect. Honest incorrectness isn’t the same thing as lying, but it amounts to the same thing when you’re talking about witnesses to a specific event. A relative minority will limit themselves to reporting what they actually saw, not things that they have filled in by assumption, or memories contaminated by too much exposure to other points of view. Of that relative minority, even fewer will be the kind of person who, by natural inclination or possibly training, has the capacity for noticing and retaining a large amount of detail in a limited amount of time.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“I believe that there’s a cloud for every silver lining,”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“I closed the door behind me, while life went on.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“She was a complex woman,” Anastasia said. “Brilliant, erratic, passionate, committed, idealistic, talented, charming, insulting, bold, incautious, arrogant—and short-sighted, yes.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares. It seemed that, lately, I had barely been touched at all.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12