# Quote — Jim Butcher, Changes

> Harry Dresden: Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated.

- Author: [Jim Butcher](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher.md)
- Book: [Changes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher/changes.md)
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> Harry Dresden: The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.

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> Sanya, Knight of the Cross: There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

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> Warden Chandler: PS--Why, yes, I can in fact capitalize any words I desire. The language is English. I am English. Therefore mine is the opinion which matters, colonial heathen.

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