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Mean Quotes by Jim Butcher
- Souls, I said. I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence…
- Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
- I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.
- There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't…
- I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it…
- 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…
- There are some people who will never understand what loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course, but they will never know.They…
- Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm…
- No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.
- I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try…
- It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead again already. I…
- I mean it," I said. "You're in danger." "Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's…
- Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.
- Karrin smiled faintly and shook her head. "He always said you knew ghosts. You're sure it was really him?" Mort eyed her. "Me and everyone…
- I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too…
- Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and…
- Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.
- Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.
- There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.
- 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…
- Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as…
- ...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means…
- Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of…
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