# Quote — Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

> Harry Dresden: Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

- Author: [Jim Butcher](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher.md)
- Book: [Dead Beat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher/dead-beat.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jim_Butcher#Dead_Beat_(2005)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher/dead-beat/harry-dresden-because

## More from this book

> Harry Dresden/Waldo Butters: Polka will never die!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher/dead-beat/harry-dresden-waldo-butters.md)

> Waldo Butters: Screw up my life?
>
> [He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan]
>
> Waldo Butters: I’m a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow.
>
> [He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said]
>
> Waldo Butters: Do your worst.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher/dead-beat/waldo-butters-screw.md)

> Carlos Ramirez: Everyone else who lets me ride on their dinosaur calls me Carlos.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher/dead-beat/carlos-ramirez-everyone.md)