The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.
Jim ButcherTags: imagination books writers characters ideas readers
I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.
Jim ButcherTags: friendship friends family dresden
The vampire’s true appearance was grotesque--but it wasn’t as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a lot worse, and some of the Elder Things could rip your mind apart just by letting you look at them
Jim ButcherYou.... tapped that ass. Presumably it was, phat?
Jim ButcherPunctuality is for people with nothing better to do
Jim ButcherFaith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.
Jim ButcherThis is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.
Jim ButcherBut there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine.
Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.
Tags: inspirational faith
You need a prostate to understand,” I said.
Jim ButcherTags: man-vs-woman
Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
Jim ButcherTags: quote author-jim-butcher
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