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I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.Jim Butcher
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Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.Jim Butcher
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I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.Jim Butcher
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Harry, " Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.Jim Butcher
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It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.Jim Butcher
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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 hoJim Butcher
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You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.Jim Butcher
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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
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Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.Jim Butcher
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HARRY DRESDEN–WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other EntertainmentJim Butcher
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I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.Jim Butcher
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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
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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
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Magic. It can get a guy killed.Jim Butcher
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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
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Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.Jim Butcher
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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
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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
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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
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A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.Jim Butcher