Time Quotes by Jim Butcher

I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.

— Jim Butcher

At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

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“By the time I got home, it was after two o’clock in the morning. The”

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“It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.”

— Jim Butcher

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

— Jim Butcher

The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.

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“It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.”

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“I can't be under arrest right now,” I said back to him. “I don't have the time.”

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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.

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“Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter.”

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The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I…

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Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up…

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Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future.…

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“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation…

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I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy.…

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“So I, uh, sort of threw myself out of the passenger seat of a moving car. Don’t look at me like that.…

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“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,…

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“And as I looked at him, I suddenly felt, for the very first time in my life, utterly, entirely alone. That something…

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“Vadderung grinned. “I’ve never heard it phrased quite like that, but it’s accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous…

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Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming…

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All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that…

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Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We…

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“Come with me if you want to live,” I said. “Excuse me?” “No time,” I said. “It isn’t your fault, but you’re…

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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…

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“Who am I? What have I done with my life? Who can I trust? That last one is a doozy. It haunts…

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“You aren’t angry,” he said. “That she’s hurt.” “Like hell I’m not,” I said. “It’s coming. After we take care of her.…

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“This creature serves you?" Sanya asked. "This one and about a hundred smaller ones. And five times that many part-timers I can…

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“Well, I never been to much school, you understand, but it seems to me that you're assuming something you shouldn't assume... that…

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“I look around me, man . . . I’m trying to do what I’ve always done, to protect people, to keep them safe from the…

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“I... briefly wondered why I kept running into repeat uses of various locations around town. This wasn't the first time I'd dealt…

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“Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade…

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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…

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“But… all I said was that I was scared." After what you got to experience? That's smart, kid," I said. "I'm scared,…

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“One time, when we'd been discussing martial arts, Murphy told me that eventually, no-one can teach you anything more about them. Once…

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“Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The First Lord stared at her…

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“There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect.”

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“Tonight you will be visited by three spirits. The ghosts of indictment past, present, and future. They will teach you the true…

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“I told you," Molly said, never looking toward me. "It's in the past. Leave it there." "You listening to my head, kiddo?"…

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“There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out…

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Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight…

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