1,269 Quotes by Jim Butcher

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    I could taste the blood in my mouth, from where I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.

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    All you have to do is to hold them until the cops get here, and then you can bleed to death in peace. Or get to a doctor. Whichever hurts less.

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    Don’t call me a dinosaur. It isn’t fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

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    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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    Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, “Hey, if you’ve got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It’s an original.” Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy.

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    Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it. I.

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    There’s always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a choice.

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    He wasn’t evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

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    It’s a shadelight. Some of my men put one up whenever I lose a member of the crew. To light his shade’s way back to his bunk, so he can rest.

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