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If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself

If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

Jim Butcher
Fighting, Winning, Eight
Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.200, Penguin

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

Jim Butcher
Crazy, Fighting, Thinking
Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.87, Hachette UK

‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

Jim Butcher
Fighting, Darkness, Different
Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.586, Penguin

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

Jim Butcher
Laughter, Pain, Fighting

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

Jim Butcher
Atheist, Fighting, Evil
Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.85, Penguin Group

For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life." I called power into my blasting rod, and its tip glowed incandescent white. "The way I see it, there's nothing else worth fighting a war for" -Harry Dresden

Jim Butcher
War, Fighting, White
Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.266, Penguin

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