# Quote — Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

> Malcolm Dresden: Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone." His fingers squeezed me tight. "But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side."

- 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/malcolm-dresden-son

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> 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.

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