Top 100 Quotes About Dresden
#1. If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
Jim Butcher
#2. Ebenezar blinked . Then he turned his face to me his expression clearly asking whether or not I was out of my damned mind .
"Wile E. Coyote" I said to him soberly . "Suuuuuuper Genius
Jim Butcher
#3. He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, You are an untidy person.
Jim Butcher
#5. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.
Jim Butcher
#6. Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore."
Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.
Jim Butcher
#7. A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two ... succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.
Jim Butcher
#8. Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Jim Butcher
#9. It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.
Jim Butcher
#10. Injun Joe studied the body for a moment, his eyes sad. Then he said, "I'd rather go in my sleep, I think." He glanced back at me. "What about you?"
"I want to be stepped on by an elephant while having sex with identical triplet cheerleaders," I said.
Jim Butcher
#11. I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.
Jim Butcher
#12. 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
#13. Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.
Jim Butcher
#14. Let me get this straight," he said. "You'll give me all the kingdoms of the Earth if I just bow down and do one act of worship for you?" Dresden
James S.A. Corey
#15. I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now.
Jim Butcher
#16. Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells.
Jim Butcher
#17. Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person."
"I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said.
"It is today.
Jim Butcher
#18. Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
Jim Butcher
#19. The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault.
Jim Butcher
#20. Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.
Jim Butcher
#21. I'd had a key to the marina's locks at one time, but I'd lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab's bed.
(My life. Hell's bells.)
Jim Butcher
#22. I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.
Jim Butcher
#23. I flicked a comb through my wet hair, for all the good it would do, and said, "How do I look?"
"Mostly human," she said.
"That's what I was going for.
Jim Butcher
#24. You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
Jim Butcher
#25. Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
Jim Butcher
#26. Nobody can be bad at everything. There's no such thing as a perfect screwup.
Jim Butcher
#27. As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this.
Gunter Blobel
#28. You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!
Jim Butcher
#29. Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.
Jim Butcher
#30. It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be - even if it isn't what you expected.
Jim Butcher
#31. Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.
Jim Butcher
#32. The Blue Beetle was not a clown car," I said severely. "It was a machine of justice.
Jim Butcher
#33. Tiny," Sanya rumbled to Michael, clenching a demonstrative fist. "But fierce.
Jim Butcher
#34. We start by sinking a barge," I decided. Then I blinked and looked at the Erlking. "Can we sink a barge?"
The shadow-masked Erlking tilted his head slightly to one side, his burning eyes narrowed. "Wizard, please.
Jim Butcher
#35. Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it's a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.
Jim Butcher
#36. You know the law, Dresden."
"He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.
Jim Butcher
#37. I was the last of the four Dresden dolls. Only me... and I didn't want to be here.
V.C. Andrews
#38. Good Lord, I'm regretting this now," I muttered. "I have never - ever - smelled BO this bad in my life. And I once had s'mores wit a Sasquatch."
"Hang out with him for awhile," Mort gasped. "Eventually it's not so bad."
"Wow. Really?"
"No. Not really.
Jim Butcher
#39. Concentrate on what you will do, not what you should have done.
Jim Butcher
#40. Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.
Jim Butcher
#41. Murphy, you rock! Go team Dresden!"
"Hey, I'm the one who rocks ... Go team Murphy.
Jim Butcher
#42. Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.
Jim Butcher
#43. Mab had the kind of power you had to describe using exponents.
Jim Butcher
#44. For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were to us, and also a reference in Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, and in a song by The Fall.
Brian Viglione
#45. For a second, I wanted very badly to know a spell that would let me melt through the floor in a quivering puddle of please-don't-kill-me.
Jim Butcher
#46. I thought I told you I didn't want to talk to you, Mr. Dresden."
"I like women who play hard to get.
Jim Butcher
#47. Bob," I said over my shoulder. "Tell her it's me."
"Can't," Bob said in a dreamy tone. "Boobs.
Jim Butcher
#48. The Carpenters had a threshold more solid and extensive than the Great Wall of China. I would not be in the least bit surprised if you could see it from space.
Jim Butcher
#49. The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right.
I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, Fuck subtle.
Jim Butcher
#50. Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.
Jim Butcher
#51. I've had a tense couple of days. And I've got to tell you, burning someone's face off sounds like a great way to relax.
Jim Butcher
#52. I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly."
~Harry Dresden
Jim Butcher
#53. You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame.
Sanya to Dresden
Jim Butcher
#54. Harry Dresden. I'm on a mission from God.
Jim Butcher
#55. I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.
Jim Butcher
#56. We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.
Jim Butcher
#57. Prisoners of war from many lands came together that morning at such and such a place in Dresden. It had been decreed that here was where the digging for bodies was to begin. So the digging began.
Kurt Vonnegut
#58. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has.
Kurt Vonnegut
#59. I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.
Jim Butcher
#60. I've been with Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Germany, for five years - I wanted to escape the competitive dance world and go somewhere where I felt appreciated for my talents. Stateside, it was always kind of a struggle. And the competition? Not into it.
Sarah Hay
#61. You're playing the creepy vibe a little hard," I said. "Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.
Jim Butcher
#62. If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.
Jim Butcher
#63. There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more ... secure.
Jim Butcher
#64. Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
Jim Butcher
#65. In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!
Jim Butcher
#66. I was doing the new Summer Lady a favor, running down a rogue
storm sylph. Got to go all over the place in those tornado-chaser
geekmobiles. You should have seen the look on the driver's face when he
realized that the tornado was chasing us.
Jim Butcher
#67. I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.
Jim Butcher
#68. You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.
Jim Butcher
#69. You predicted quick victory. Now it's going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don't you know any better than that by now?
Jim Butcher
#70. For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life." I called power into my blasting rod, and its tip glowed incandescent white. "The way I see it, there's nothing else worth fighting a war for.
Jim Butcher
#71. Dresden, which I am told presents no military or industrial targets whatsoever for the RAF.
Paul Russell
#72. Lean forward a little, my lord," Toot said instantly, and shouted, "Hey, Kernal Purpleweed! Come watch the Za Winter Lord Knight's back!"
I fought not to smile. "No, that's a metaphor," I said.
Toot frowned and scratched his head. "I don't know what it's for.
Jim Butcher
#73. I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you.
Julius Streicher
#74. You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.
Jim Butcher
#75. The Black Hole?" Grey asked, incredulously. "Nobody quotes The Black Hole, Dresden. Nobody even remembers that one." "Hogwash. Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Perkins, and Roddy McDowall all in the same movie? Immortality.
Jim Butcher
#76. Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell.
I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.
Jim Butcher
#78. If your new boss wanted yo on the island, wouldn't she just have told you to go there?" Thomas asked.
"Seems like," I said. "Taking her orders is pretty much my job now."
Molly snorted softly.
"Maybe I'll grow into it," I said. "You don't know."
Thomas snorted softly.
Jim Butcher
#79. She held up her hand, palm up - another one of those gestures, their meanings forgotten by everyone except for long-term wackjobs like Dresden.
Jim Butcher
#80. I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.
Jim Butcher
#81. Harry Dresden - I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day.
Jim Butcher
#82. Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry."
I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.
Jim Butcher
#84. Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.
Jim Butcher
#85. Mac folded his arms on the bar and looked at me intently and said, in a resonant baritone, "You've got to be very careful, Harry."
I looked at him, shocked. He'd ... used grammar.
Jim Butcher
#86. Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."
Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.
Jim Butcher
#87. Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.
Jim Butcher
#88. Every soul is special. They're all beautiful. They're all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people are at their best, they're acting in accordance with their soul. The ones who have gone bad don't have bad souls. They've just given up on keeping in touch with them.
Jim Butcher
#89. I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.
Jim Butcher
#90. It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.
I turned around and ran like hell.
Jim Butcher
#91. Michael half-smiled. "The Lord will never give you a burden bigger than your shoulders can bear, Harry. All we can do is face what comes and have faith."
I gave him a sour glance. "I need to get myself some bigger shoulders, then. Someone in accounting must have made a mistake.
Jim Butcher
#92. Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows."
"That's mostly done already, Harry."
"Oh. Well. I've got to believe that the world is worth saving anyway.
Jim Butcher
#94. I didn't have any money or ID. I didn't have a credit card. Hell, I didn't have a business card.
What would it say? 'Harry Dresden, Winter Knight, Targets Slain, No Barbecues, Waterslides, or Fireworks Displays.
Jim Butcher
#95. Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.
Jim Butcher
#96. You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.
Jim Butcher
#97. When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.
Gerhard Richter
#98. Maybe," he said in a slow, rural drawl, "you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy."
"Well," I said, "if you're going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn't it.
Jim Butcher
#99. IN SHAME AND SORROW CHRISTIANS KEEP IN MEMORY THE JEWISH CITIZENS OF THIS CITY. IN 1933, 4675 JEWS LIVED IN DRESDEN. IN 1945 IT WAS 70. WE WERE SILENT AS THEIR HOUSES OF WORSHIP BLAZED . . . WE DID NOT RECOGNIZE THEM AS OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS.
Lauren Belfer
#100. All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.
Jim Butcher
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