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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, Dead Beat
Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don’t want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
— Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
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, Dead Beat
Children run everywhere for a reason–it’s fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.
— Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
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, Dead Beat
Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.
— Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
Heroism doesn’t pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
— Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
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, Dead Beat
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, Dead Beat
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, Dead Beat
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, Dead Beat
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, Dead Beat
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, Dead Beat
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, Dead Beat
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, Dead Beat
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, Dead Beat
I’m so pretty, it’s hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
— Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
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, Dead Beat
Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar
— Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
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