The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level โ 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 ButcherWe've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.
Jim Butcher...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher
Jim ButcherMagic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.
Jim ButcherMaybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if Iโm a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowersโall that sort of thing.
Jim Butcher