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Quotes About Bravery

Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!
~ Jim Butcher
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.
~ Jim Butcher
I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, Uh-oh.
~ Jim Butcher
I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick.
~ Jim Butcher
Maybe you know the monsters, Martin, Murphy said quietly. But I know the guy who stops them. And if they don't return the girl, we'll make them regret it. She nodded at me and said, Let's go. We can watch Dresden kill the bitch.
~ Jim Butcher
I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly. ~Harry Dresden
~ Jim Butcher
Do you really think you can win?' 'Yeah. Hell, Ortega is only the third or fourth most disturbing thing I've tangled with today.' 'But even if you do win, what does it change?' 'Me getting kiilled now. That way, I get to be killed later tonight instead.' - Susan Rodriguez & Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher
~ Jim Butcher
Unicorns, I said. Very dangerous. You go first.
~ Jim Butcher
It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. And I, Harry Dresden, am that man, I stated.
~ Jim Butcher
My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do.
~ Jim Butcher
Let come the forces of night! We will stand! We will get the hell out of here is what we will do, I muttered.
~ Jim Butcher
Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.
~ Jim Butcher
This is scary. And we're doing it anyway, I said. That makes us brave, right? If we get away with it, I said. If we don't, it just makes us stupid.
~ Jim Butcher
You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.
~ Jim Butcher
I kicked the door open, staff held ready to fight, and shouted, And I'm all outta bubble gum!
~ Jim Butcher
Speak for yourself," Murphy said. "I just gave my last grenade to a Valkyrie and ordered her to blow up a kraken. I'm having a ball.
~ Jim Butcher
Form up, I murmured, because it sounded more military and tougher than saying, You guys go first.
~ Jim Butcher
There are many things you have never done," Rowl responded. "To be frightened of them is of no use to you.
~ Jim Butcher
Legionares are not afraid of dinner," Max growled, giving the taurg a dire glare. "Dinner is afraid of legionares.
~ Jim Butcher
I settled in and told Michael, Now, if only we had some Wagner to send us on our way. I saw Gard's reflection in the chopper's front windows look up at my words. Then she flicked a couple of switches, and Ride of the Valkyries started thrumming through the helicopter's cabin. Yee-haw, I said as my elbows and knees started a nagging ache. As long as we're going, we might as well go out in style.
~ Jim Butcher
Mouse isn't big. He's compactly challenged.
~ Jim Butcher
I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.
~ Jim Butcher
her look dared me to make some kind of chivalrous commentary. I didn't, and she didn't break my nose, by way of fair exchange.
~ Jim Butcher
He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.
~ Jim Butcher