Quotes From "Dead Beat" By Jim Butcher

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door...
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Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar Jim Butcher
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Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side. Jim Butcher
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We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" "No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die. Jim Butcher
In the action business, when you don't want to say...
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In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic. Jim Butcher
I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of...
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I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent. Jim Butcher
Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded...
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Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. Jim Butcher
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If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt. Jim Butcher
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I know how you feel, " I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has. Jim Butcher
Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism....
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Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it. Jim Butcher
You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced...
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You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it. Jim Butcher
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Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether. Jim Butcher
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It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget. Jim Butcher
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Like I said, magic comes from life, and especially from emotions. They're a source of the same intangible energy that everyone can feel when an autumn moon rises and fills you with a sudden sense of bone-deep excitement, or when the first warm breeze of spring rushes past your face, full of the scents of life, and drowns you in a sudden flood of unreasoning joy. The passion of mighty music that brings tears to your eyes, and the raw, bubbling, infectious laughter of small children at play, the bellowing power of a stadium full of football fans shouting "Hey! " in time to that damned song–they're all charged with magic. My magic comes from the same places. And maybe from darker places than that. Fear is an emotion, too. So is rage. So is lust. And madness. I'm not a particularly good person. I'm no Charles Manson or anything, but I'm not going to be up for canonization either. Though in the past, I think maybe I was a better person than I am today. In the past I hadn't seen so many people hurt and killed and terrorized by the same kind of power that damn well should have been making the world a nicer place, or at the least staying the hell away from it. I hadn't made so many mistakes back then, so many shortsighted decisions, some of which had cost people their lives. I had been sure of myself. I had been whole. . Jim Butcher
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What's with that?” Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. “Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie? Jim Butcher
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I poke at my skull with a finger. It didn't feel soft or anything. I didn't feel insane. But if you'd really lost it, would you have enough left to know? Crazy people never thought they were crazy. "I've always talked to things, " I said. "And to myself." "Good point, " myself agreed with me. "Unless that means you've been nuts all along." "I don't need wiseass remarks, " I told myself severely. "There's work to do. So shut up. Jim Butcher
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On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain. . Jim Butcher
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Harry, life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick of things, sometimes it's hard for us to tell. You didn't do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn't make it right - but it doesn't make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become. Jim Butcher
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Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes. Jim Butcher
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Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous. Jim Butcher
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I'm brilliant as well as skilled, " he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can. Jim Butcher