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Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10) QUOTES

Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10) QUOTES

1 " Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car. "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

2 " Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut? "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

3 " 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 , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

4 " You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles! "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

5 " Well, I never been to much school, you understand, but it seems to me that you're assuming something you shouldn't assume... that God sees the world like you do; one thing at a time, from just one spot. Seems to me that he's supposed to be everywhere, know everything. ...Think about that; he knows what you're feeling, how you're hurting. Feels my pain, your pain like it was his own. Hell son, the question isn't how God could care about just one person; question is, how could he not? "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

6 " 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 Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

7 " Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind. "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

8 " Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?'
'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said.
'We're going to Burger King?'
I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.'
'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please'
- Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

9 " ... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of those gorillas who has learned to paint. The results would have been of similar quality, and they could have paid in fresh produce.
- Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

10 " ...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse, just to occupy my thoughts, but he was suffering enough without being forced to endure Dickens, even by proxy. "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

11 " Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn’t make them any less hideous. They’re always just a little too cold. It always smells just a little bit too sharp and clean. It’s always quiet, so quiet that you can hear the fluorescent lights - another constant, those lights - humming. Pretty much everyone else there is in the same bad predicament you are, and there isn’t much in the way of cheerful conversation. And there’s always a clock in sight. The clock has superpowers. It always seems to move too slowly. Look up at it and it will tell you the time. Look up an hour and a half later, and it will tell you two minutes have gone by. Yet it somehow simultaneously has the ability to remind you of how short life is, to make you acutely aware of how little time someone you love might have remaining to them. "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

12 " They'd paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. Maybe it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of these gorillas who has learned to paint. The results would have been of similar quality, and they could have paid in fresh produce. "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

13 " That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus. "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

14 " 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 , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

15 " A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of them made a chittering sound that wasn't very melodic. The other twitched its tail and splashed a little water our way, all in good fun. They weren't the attractive Flipper kind of dolphins. They were regular dolphins that aren't as pretty and don't get cast on television. Maybe they just refused to sell out and see a plastic surgeon. I held up a fist to them. Represent. "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

16 " There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrugged. 'It's worthwhile to me. "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

17 " I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers. "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

18 " At one time in my life, a shapeshifted, demonically possessed maniac crashing through a window and trying to rip my face off would have come as an enormous and nasty surprise.

But that time was pretty much in the past. "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

19 " Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real. "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)

20 " I like her,” Sanya rumbled in his deep, half-swallowed accent. “She is so tiny and fierce. I don’t suppose she knows how to—” “Sanya,” Michael said, his voice very firm. “We have talked about this.” The dark-skinned Russian sighed and shrugged. “It could not hurt to ask.” “Sanya.” He lifted both hands in a gesture of surrender, grinning, and fell silent. The "

― Jim Butcher , Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)