Dresden Files Quotes:

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Magic, Dresden Files

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book Thirteen”, Hachette UK

topic: Guy, Magic, Harry Dresden, Dresden Files

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.304, Penguin

topic: Family, People, Hell, Happy Family, Karrin Murphy

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

- Unknown

topic: Funny, Life, Halloween, Funny Bumper Sticker, Dresden

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't somebody watching.

- Patrick Carman

topic: Mean, Paranoid, Funny Bumper Sticker, Dresden, Dresden Files

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.8, Penguin

topic: Fire, Faults, Building, Dresden, Dresden Files

When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Book, Writing, Tired, Dresden Files

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.22, Penguin Group

topic: Mean, Faces, Demon, Dresden, Dresden Files

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Laughter, Laughing, Sanity, Killing Yourself, Great Drinking

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

topic: Gun, America, Hands, Dresden Files

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

topic: Strong, Children, Book, Dresden, Dresden Files

He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Coats, Red, Pockets, Red Bull, Revolver

Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.181, Penguin

topic: Divergent, Viewpoints, Way, Discussing, Good Way

...the Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?

- Jim Butcher

source: "Changes". Book by Jim Butcher, April 6, 2010.

topic: Beer, Men, Makeup, Binary, Body Types

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

topic: Motivational, Eye, Stubborn, Polka, Always And Forever

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.150, Penguin

topic: Life, Journey, Doors, Life Is A Journey, Dresden

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

- Jim Butcher

topic: Motivational, Names, Lord, Dresden, Dresden Files

Death is only frightening from the near side.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Sides, Frightening, Dresden Files

There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear....

- Jim Butcher

topic: Wall, Night, Light, Despite, Dresden Files