We're all so damned fragile.
Jim ButcherTags: fragility dresden-files human-frailties
Magic. It can get a guy killed.
Jim ButcherTags: magic harry-dresden dresden-files
Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.
Harry DresdenTags: terry-pratchett dresden-files jim-butcher cold-days
I'm never really comfortable at parties. Maybe I'm just not the partying type.
...I think it's because I'm never sure what to do with myself.
I mean, there're drinks, but I don't like being drunk.... There's music, but I never really learned to dance to anything that involved an electric guitar. There are people to talk to...but once you put all the stupid things I do aside, I'm really not that interesting. I like reading, staying home, going on walks with my dog.... Who wants to hear about that? Especially when I would have to scream it over music to which no one dances.
So I'm there but not drinking, listening to music but not dancing, and trying to have conversations with near-strangers about anything other than my own stupid life.... Leads to a lot of awkward pauses. And then I start wondering why I showed up in the first place."
-- Cold Days (The Dresden Files Book 14), pg. 33
Tags: parties shyness dresden-files
Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.
Jim ButcherTags: consequences fantasies beautiful-women dresden-files playboy
No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for what might be very good reasons. They make choice after choice, and none of them is slaughtering roomfuls of saints, or murdering hundreds of baby seals, or rubber-room irrational. But it adds up. And then one day they look around and realized that they're so far over the line that they can't remember where it was.
Jim ButcherTags: evil good-and-evil villains dresden-files bad-guys
Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.
Jim ButcherTags: change fire alchemy dresden-files
I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.
Jim ButcherTags: gifts dresden-files embezzlement
Tiny," Sanya rumbled to Michael, clenching a demonstrative fist. "But fierce.
Jim ButcherTags: humour harry-dresden dresden-files
Everyone dies, honey," I said, very quietly. "Everyone. There's no 'if.' There's only 'when.'" I let that sink in for a moment. "When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
Jim ButcherTags: dresden-files
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