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Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them. By Jim Butcher

I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please. By Jim Butcher

From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. By Jim Butcher

A lot can change in a year. By Jim Butcher

If she were in a race for her life, that roar was the starter pistol. If God were the referee, He had just shouted Go. By Jim Butcher

I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story. By Jim Butcher

It - I was pretty much equipped, by experience and inclination, for mayhem. By Jim Butcher

Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas. By Jim Butcher

My doubts vanished as well. Doubt was for things that did not know their purpose, and I knew mine. By Jim Butcher

Do you want to be my dad? By Jim Butcher

I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket. By Jim Butcher

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine. By Jim Butcher

I looked, noted details mechanically, and quietly shut the door on the part of my head that had started screaming the second I entered the room. By Jim Butcher

That woman," Grimm said quietly, "drives me quite insane."Kettle grunted. "Why'd you marry her, then? By Jim Butcher

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you? By Jim Butcher

I didn't follow her right away. She didn't look back. Stab. Twist. God, I love being a wizard. By Jim Butcher

Everything's mine, Francis," she replied in a merry tone. "The only question is whether or not it knows it is yet. By Jim Butcher

In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game. By Jim Butcher

Patterns of cloth busier than the makeup girl at a Kiss concert By Jim Butcher

If I stay, they'll kill me ... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally. By Jim Butcher

[Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her. By Jim Butcher

You okay?" Fix asked her. "Have to be," she said. By Jim Butcher

I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you. By Jim Butcher

Because it needs to be said," she murmured. "Because that's what happened. You deserve to know that. By Jim Butcher

Where is your unit?" Murphy asked.I wiggled my eyebrows at her. "Right where it's always been, dollface. By Jim Butcher

Wars and plans can't coexist, sir. One of them kills the other. By Jim Butcher

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground. By Jim Butcher

Sometimes, when I get bored, I stop and think. By Jim Butcher

That's the worst part about the walking dead ... the stains. By Jim Butcher

It's easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back. By Jim Butcher

Sometimes the things that are good for you, in the long run, hurt for a little while when you first get to them. By Jim Butcher

Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better. By Jim Butcher

Chew and smile? At the same time? Do I look like Jackie Chan? By Jim Butcher

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it ... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me. By Jim Butcher

Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else. By Jim Butcher

The belts do more than make you fuzzy, Denton. They change the way you think. The way you act. By Jim Butcher

The hardest lesson a wizard has to learn is that even with so much power, there are some things you can't control. No matter how much you want to. By Jim Butcher

That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate. By Jim Butcher

He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. By Jim Butcher

She gave me a hard look. "No one likes a wiseass, Harry.""Are you kidding? As long as the wiseass is talking to someone else, people love 'em. By Jim Butcher

Some men fall from grace. Some are pushed. By Jim Butcher

I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. By Jim Butcher

I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs. By Jim Butcher

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?""Because they're real.""How do you know?""The one I was holding crapped on my hand. By Jim Butcher

He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, You are an untidy person. By Jim Butcher

You want to play head games?" Molly snarled, her blue eyes blazing. "Let's go. By Jim Butcher

Righteous. The real deal. He's honest, loyal, faithful. He lives his ideals. It gives him power. By Jim Butcher

Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.' ... Harry Dresden By Jim Butcher

We headed toward the creepy old slaughterhouse full of dangerous beings. Which ... pretty much tells you what kind of day I was having, right there. By Jim Butcher

There are people out there who enjoy hurting and scaring others. They're going to keep doing it until you make them stop. By Jim Butcher

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. By Jim Butcher

We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one. By Jim Butcher

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. By Jim Butcher

So you really could die. Your godmother is right, you know. You are mad as a hatter. Nutty as a fruitcake." "Crazy like a fox," I said. By Jim Butcher

They get caught up in right and wrong. Or right and left. But none of that stuff matters if people aren't free. Titania By Jim Butcher

Harry Dresden - I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day. By Jim Butcher

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge. By Jim Butcher

Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone. By Jim Butcher

That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse. By Jim Butcher

Make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is. By Jim Butcher

Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night? By Jim Butcher

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea. By Jim Butcher

It would, Grimm thought, be a horrible surprise to find out, mid-dive, that your ship had suddenly lost the ability to stop diving. By Jim Butcher

Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself. By Jim Butcher

My hair had grown out long and shaggy - not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way. By Jim Butcher

Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate. By Jim Butcher

If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you. By Jim Butcher

Ah, yes. 'And I'll huff. And I'll puff. And I'll blow your house down.' Good-bye, wizard." Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells. By Jim Butcher

Death by nursery tale. Hell's bells. By Jim Butcher

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong. By Jim Butcher

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel. By Jim Butcher

Later. Bad habit to get into," Thomas said. "Life's too short. By Jim Butcher

That's the difficult part of being mortal. Of having choice. Much is hidden from you. By Jim Butcher

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny? By Jim Butcher

There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more ... secure. By Jim Butcher

I can disintegrate a virgin's inhibitions at fifty paces, but I can't last two weeks at a job where I'm wearing a stupid hairnet and a paper hat. By Jim Butcher

Lara [Raith] was gorgeous, brilliant, and sexier than a Swedish bikini team hiking up a mountain of money. By Jim Butcher

Your ability to comprehend your environment is very strongly defined by your belief in a number of illusions. Time. Truth. Love. By Jim Butcher

Wait. You work for me?""I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence. By Jim Butcher

I sidestepped the vampire's rush, and drove my half of the former blasting rod down at its back, Buffy-like.Maybe it works better on television. By Jim Butcher

Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine. By Jim Butcher

I didn't shiver. I get muscle twitches sometimes. That's all. By Jim Butcher

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else. By Jim Butcher

Speak only to those who listen. Anything else is a waste of breath. The answers to your questions were there, if you listened for them. By Jim Butcher

But mostly, it ends badly when wizards try to stay too close to their kin. By Jim Butcher

Mab narrowed her eyes, and a little smile graced her lips. "Impudent," she said. "It's sweet on you. By Jim Butcher

Uh," I said, feeling somewhat off balance. "What do I think of gay guys?" "Yes." "Boink and let boink, more or less. By Jim Butcher

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone. By Jim Butcher

the worst madmen don't seem odd at all," Grimm said. "They appear to be quite calm and rational, in fact. Until the screaming starts. By Jim Butcher

Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut? By Jim Butcher

You're a cop. I need a doughnut. By Jim Butcher

Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning. By Jim Butcher

If you weren't getting pretty close to crazy right now, would you be talking to yourself right now? By Jim Butcher

The Blue Beetle was not a clown car," I said severely. "It was a machine of justice. By Jim Butcher

Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep. By Jim Butcher

Ease off the martyr throttle. By Jim Butcher

Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly. By Jim Butcher

She'd grown up in a strict household; she'd gone insane with freedom the minute she ran away and got out on her own. By Jim Butcher

You need some time in a quiet place, boss. Unkink your brain's do. Mellow your vibe." "Thank you, Doctor Fraud, By Jim Butcher

Whatever the reason, I'm happy to remember the time we had. By Jim Butcher

She is not a cookie. Neither is she a biscuit, a PopTart, Sweet TART, apple tart, or any other kind of pastry. She is my apprentice. By Jim Butcher

Love you. That should have been simple enough to say. But the words stuck hard in my throat. I'd never said them to anyone I didn't lose, By Jim Butcher

My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do. By Jim Butcher

It's a shadelight. Some of my men put one up whenever I lose a member of the crew. To light his shade's way back to his bunk, so he can rest. By Jim Butcher

In Chicago, you can't swing a cat without hitting an Irish pub (and angering the cat), but McAnally's place stands out from the crowd. By Jim Butcher

I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry. By Jim Butcher

Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk. By Jim Butcher

It's not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it. By Jim Butcher

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated. By Jim Butcher

You're dead, son," Jack said. "Cheer is contraindicated. By Jim Butcher

purple is my favorite color that isn't black, and By Jim Butcher

I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family. By Jim Butcher

Thwart: to prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. By Jim Butcher

You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute. By Jim Butcher

Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time. By Jim Butcher

He was wrong, that doesn't make him a villian. That makes him an asshole. By Jim Butcher

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot. By Jim Butcher

You don't have to make fun of it.""Actually I do," I said. "I make fun of almost everything. By Jim Butcher

Hey, Bogart. You and the wonder twins back off or the bedsheet gets it.Harry Dresden, Death Masks. By Jim Butcher

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. By Jim Butcher

Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint. By Jim Butcher

Attention, shoppers! Discount specials on Harry Dresden's life. Slightly used, no refunds, limit one per customer. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. By Jim Butcher

No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us. By 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. By Jim Butcher

Come with me if you want to live. By Jim Butcher

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel. By Jim Butcher

His mind is strange," came Varg's rumbling voice, "but capable. By Jim Butcher

Magic 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. By Jim Butcher

EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED - THEY FOUND THE BODY By Jim Butcher

Knight takes Knight," I called into the cloudy night air. "Check. By Jim Butcher

Why do you think I do it?" He shrugged. "All I can figure is that either you're nursing a deep and sadistic self-hatred or else you're insane. By Jim Butcher

Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--"And?"And it makes you vulnerable. By Jim Butcher

When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant? By Jim Butcher

Never walk into a fight when the bad guys are the ones who set it up. By Jim Butcher

Andi's eyes widened. "Bob. . .is it really him?""Yes, but he works for the bad guys now," Bob said. "It's probably safest to shoot him. By Jim Butcher

His red hair was buzz cut, and he wore his ill-fitting suit like something that he planned to rip his way out of when he turned into the Hulk. By Jim Butcher

Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle. By Jim Butcher

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat. By Jim Butcher

Esmerelda's blue and green eyes could have made Stevie remember being hired by Mister Snuffleupagus, if that was what she wanted. By Jim Butcher

Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells. By Jim Butcher

Still going with the phallic foci, eh? Staff and rod?""They make me feel all manly. By Jim Butcher

If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style. By Jim Butcher

Intentions count for far less than the consequences of the actions born from them. By Jim Butcher

But even with centuries of experience, I doubted any of them had ever been hit with a water balloon. Or with a holy-water balloon, either. By Jim Butcher

I kicked the door open, staff held ready to fight, and shouted, And I'm all outta bubble gum! By Jim Butcher

Heroines in dramas, Bridget felt, really ought to have more sense. By Jim Butcher

Her fate was, she realized, entirely in the hands of another person. Captain By Jim Butcher

If you go exploring, you might find something that could hurt you.""If one doesn't , one is not truly exploring By Jim Butcher

Oh, good grief. The Mickey Mouse Club of werewolves wanted to throw in on my side. By Jim Butcher

Nice father figure. Him and Bill Cosby. By Jim Butcher

And if I was to die, I was not going to go out in a gibbering heap of terror. By Jim Butcher

They didn't want to kill me. They wanted to hurt me. And they were good at it. By Jim Butcher

Where germs go?""Sunrise," I said. "Poof."Butter's voice sounded bewildered. "Vampire germs?""The tiny capes are a dead giveaway. By Jim Butcher

What happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. By Jim Butcher

Me and polite have never been on close terms. By Jim Butcher

One day," I told myself, "one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool." I By Jim Butcher

Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face. Harry Dresden By Jim Butcher

Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry" Assault formation! By Jim Butcher

Not everyone can be equally right, Harry." "But believe you me, everyone can be equally wrong," I said. By Jim Butcher

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters. By Jim Butcher

I declared her brain frozen and assumed command of the local Warden detachment, which was handy, since it consisted of only me anyway. By Jim Butcher

Wizardry aside, it's tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats. By Jim Butcher

I can't be under arrest right now," I said back to him. "I don't have the time. By Jim Butcher

I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time. By Jim Butcher

White for protection. And because they're the cheapest color at Wal-Mart. Hey, being a wizard doesn't make money grow on trees. By Jim Butcher

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go. By Jim Butcher

If Gabriel is an ambassador, if Michael is a general, if Rafael is a healer and spiritual champion, then Uriel is a spymaster - Heaven's spook. By Jim Butcher

I mean, a lot of teenage guys fail in their first relationships. Not many of them murder the girl involved. By Jim Butcher

You know, I believe it is possible to reference something other than Star Wars, boss." I narrowed my eyes in Muppetly wisdom. "That is why you fail. By Jim Butcher

The freaking Leanansidhe, deputy of Her Wickedness, with her Nietzsche and Darwin Were Sentimental Pansies outlook on life By Jim Butcher

Fuck a Smurf and call him Gimpy, is that who I think it is? By Jim Butcher

Run away. Me and Monty Python. By Jim Butcher

It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it. By Jim Butcher

The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you. By Jim Butcher

You can tell a great deal about a person by looking at the people who share his life. Isana By Jim Butcher

Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave. By Jim Butcher

I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one. By Jim Butcher

Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up. By Jim Butcher

It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care. By Jim Butcher

Hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut. By Jim Butcher

Molly was a big believer in shaping the future by way of carrying anything you might need in a backpack. By Jim Butcher

And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago? By Jim Butcher

I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex. By Jim Butcher

Which just goes to show that my cat has considerably more sense than me. By Jim Butcher

Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy. By Jim Butcher

None of us had known the layout to Marcone's place, so we'd chosen to approach from the rear, on general principles of sneakiness. By Jim Butcher

I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore. By Jim Butcher

Polka will never die!" Butters screamed. "I can't believe I'm hearing this," Thomas muttered. By Jim Butcher

It doesn't take much power to hurt someone," she said. "It's far easier than healing the damage. By Jim Butcher

You're playing the creepy vibe a little hard," I said. "Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music. By Jim Butcher

Hell's bells. I don't call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks. By Jim Butcher

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground. By Jim Butcher

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to beholdAthena heading out on a Friday night. By Jim Butcher

My God, there are times when the sexiest thing a woman can give a man is permission. By Jim Butcher

The very best wizards don't need much more than chalk, table salt, and a wooden spoon to pull off some remarkable stuff. By Jim Butcher

(One does not simply walk into Mordor--except that was exactly what everyone in the story did anyway.) By Jim Butcher

Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed. By Jim Butcher

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 452," Bob said. "They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies. By Jim Butcher

I serve.""Serve who?""Heaven. Or the divine in nature. The memory of my fathers past. My fellow man. Myself. All pieces of the same thing. By Jim Butcher

Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment. By Jim Butcher

What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be? By Jim Butcher

Magic is a lot like language: it's all about stringing things together,linking one thing with another, one idea with another. By Jim Butcher

Hell's bells," I muttered. "Harry, you idiot, when will you learn not to victory gloat? By Jim Butcher

Maybe I should have listened to Murphy. Maybe I should have stayed home and played with some nice, safe, forbidden black magic instead. By Jim Butcher

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemonperfect. By Jim Butcher

The border's been waggling back and forth like a hooker at a dockworker's convention. By Jim Butcher

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy. By Jim Butcher

You know, sometimes I think Someone up there really hates me. By Jim Butcher

You will probably find, in life, that successes and victories tend to overshadow the risks you took, while failure will amplify how idiotic they were. By Jim Butcher

I ... drew out the gun I kept at home, a great big old Dirty Harry Callahan number that weighed about seventy-five thousand pounds. By Jim Butcher

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style. By Jim Butcher

So," he said. "Mab."I grunted vaguely in reply."You hit that," Sanya said. By Jim Butcher

Bob," I said over my shoulder. "Tell her it's me.""Can't," Bob said in a dreamy tone. "Boobs. By Jim Butcher

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic. By Jim Butcher

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. By Jim Butcher

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers. By Jim Butcher

Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head. By Jim Butcher

He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan By Jim Butcher

You can be as sincere as hell and still be wrong. By Jim Butcher

Bright, flowery plants ... were busy committing the olfactory equivalent of aggravated assault. By 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. By Jim Butcher

Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs. By Jim Butcher

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die."Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet. By Jim Butcher

If I could publish actual interviews with vampires - " "Sheesh, Susan. You're reading too much off the bestseller list. In By Jim Butcher

Truth be told, my head was spinning so much that the car could have been doing interpretive dance in a lilac tutu and I might not have noticed. By Jim Butcher

It's an old place, but it sings in the darkness and is, in its own quirky little way, alive. It's home. By Jim Butcher

You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt. By Jim Butcher

Playing cat and mouse is generally only fun for the cat. By Jim Butcher

And may the crows feast on the unjust. By Jim Butcher

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden) By Jim Butcher

Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car. By Jim Butcher

You want it. I can see it in you." I gritted my teeth. "The part of me that wants it doesn't get a vote," I said. By Jim Butcher

You think you're funny." "Oh, I know I'm funny. Unappreciated, but funny. By Jim Butcher

Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding! By Jim Butcher

There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm. By Jim Butcher

By the time I got home, it was after two o'clock in the morning. The By Jim Butcher

So I, uh, sort of threw myself out of the passenger seat of a moving car. Don't look at me like that. I'm telling you, it made sense at the time. By Jim Butcher

You're mad," the fallen angel said."Get me some Alka Seltzer and I'll foam at the mouth, too. By Jim Butcher

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. By Jim Butcher

The worst lies are almost always silence - or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core. By Jim Butcher

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different. By Jim Butcher

Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation. By Jim Butcher

I kicked him in the head with my rented formal shoes. My shoe went flying off, which I was pretty sure never happened to James Bond. The By Jim Butcher

She had never gotten it through her gentle head that there was a time for a soft paw and a time for red claws. By Jim Butcher

You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles! By Jim Butcher

He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore. By Jim Butcher

I thought I told you I didn't want to talk to you, Mr. Dresden." "I like women who play hard to get. By Jim Butcher

Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust. By Jim Butcher

You can tell a lot about a man from how he treats his dog, By Jim Butcher

My own aches and bruises and cuts and wounds pained me, but it was an honest, stretchy pain, something that was healing. By Jim Butcher

Never touch my brother on his fucking birthday. By Jim Butcher

Fear and anger always come hand in hand. Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it. By Jim Butcher

Bosun!" "Aye, skipper?" "Reinforce the mainmast, hang out all the laundry, and warn the witchmen! Let's make the old bitch fly! By Jim Butcher

But... my choices haven't always been very good," I said."Whose have?" he asked. By Jim Butcher

I tried not to be too obviously interested, and fumbled my notebook and trusty pencil from my duster's pocket. By Jim Butcher

Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return. By Jim Butcher

Lord," Michael said. "We walk into darkness now. Our enemies will surround us. Please help to make us strong enough to do what needs to be done. Amen. By Jim Butcher

Woof," said Billy the Werewolf. By Jim Butcher

As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms.""Eh?""Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit. By Jim Butcher

Internet," she said sagely. "Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge. By Jim Butcher

Here's something else I bet you didn't know about Tyrannosaurs: they don't corner well. By Jim Butcher

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice. By Jim Butcher

You'd think as long as I was gambling with my soul, I would have thought to get Mab to throw in fifty bucks an hour plus expenses. By Jim Butcher

This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears. By Jim Butcher

Come on," I said to Karrin. "Head for the other boat.""Should we?" she asked. "That Erlking guy seems a little..do-it-yourselfy. By Jim Butcher

It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others. By Jim Butcher

I guess maybe you don't get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles By Jim Butcher

The council is old school. Really, really old school. By Jim Butcher

It rained toads the day the White Council came to town. By Jim Butcher

The Senior Council""Couldn't find its heart if it had a copy of Grey's Anatomy, X-ray vision, and a stethoscope. By Jim Butcher

I'm afraid it isn't good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad. By Jim Butcher

One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored. By Jim Butcher

Kestus idly added theoretical torture to the theoretical murder, because done right, it might be funny. By Jim Butcher

I should far rather be drunk than eaten, Miss Lancaster," Ferus said in a serious tone. "As should we all. Very well, that's settled. By Jim Butcher

You aren't explaining it very well." "Maybe," I said. "Or maybe you aren't learning it very well. By Jim Butcher

If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it. By Jim Butcher

I'm getting dumber by the minute," I confirmed. "Ask anybody. By Jim Butcher

Imagine Smaug's treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste. By Jim Butcher

I have a monster under my bed, and it's Mouse. By Jim Butcher

Thank God for wisecracks. By Jim Butcher

I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire. By Jim Butcher

I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing. By Jim Butcher

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution. By Jim Butcher

I've had sex that didn't feel as good as Maeve's smile. By Jim Butcher

Like life is short," he said. "Like you don't know when it's going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can't ever be said. By Jim Butcher

I'm a disciple of the Tao of Peter Parker, obviously, By Jim Butcher

Nice try?" Butters said. "Mister, where I come from, there is no try. By Jim Butcher

Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear "no" often enough. By Jim Butcher

it would be a real pity to die when I'd finally put tabs on who had gotten me into this mess - By Jim Butcher

I did absolutely nothing. Carefully. By Jim Butcher

He sees the color blue," the etherealist said. "But his color blue. Not yours. By Jim Butcher

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville. By Jim Butcher

You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone. By Jim Butcher

Those who had never seen a tribe of cats at war, or at least playing war games, would look upon what came next as utter chaos. By Jim Butcher

I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser. By Jim Butcher

Every jungle creature for fifty or sixty yards started raising holy hell on the what-the-fuck-was-that party line. By Jim Butcher

My gast was pretty well flabbered. By Jim Butcher

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous. By Jim Butcher

I'm not a doctor," Butters said.We'd done this dance several times. "You are the Mighty Butters," I said. "You can do anything. By Jim Butcher

Lies. Mab cannot change who you are. By Jim Butcher

I hear that they make disinfectants that don't hurt these days. But Charity used iodine. By Jim Butcher

How do i do this? By Jim Butcher

Dude," I said, making the word a disgusted sound. "Single guys everywhere hate you. Starting with me. By Jim Butcher

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality. By Jim Butcher

Worry is fear in disguise. By Jim Butcher

I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity. By Jim Butcher

Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first. By Jim Butcher

are dangerous. Wills are dangerous. You are heavily armed with both." Tavi By Jim Butcher

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated. By Jim Butcher

You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now. By Jim Butcher

The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, he said, and turned for the door. By Jim Butcher

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying? By Jim Butcher

Fear is a funny thing. In the right light, even tiny and insignificant fears can suddenly grow, swelling up to monstrous proportions. By Jim Butcher

All you have to do is to hold them until the cops get here, and then you can bleed to death in peace. Or get to a doctor. Whichever hurts less. By Jim Butcher

You know, it wouldn't kill you to be a little more polite." "Why take chances," I muttered, By Jim Butcher

More than anything, she wanted to be someplace warm and safebut duty was a cold and barren shelter for a wounded spirit. By Jim Butcher

Speed of lightning! Roar of thunder! Fighting all who rob or plunder! Underdog! By Jim Butcher

What one deserves and what one experiences are seldom congruent. By Jim Butcher

Parkour," I panted. "Bitch. By Jim Butcher

Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy! By Jim Butcher

He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility. By Jim Butcher

What's with that?' Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. 'Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie? By Jim Butcher

The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean. By Jim Butcher

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too. By Jim Butcher

Marcone's scum, but he's his own scum -Harry Dresden By Jim Butcher

Stop learning, start dying. By Jim Butcher

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. By Jim Butcher

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy. By Jim Butcher

They were donuts of darkness. By Jim Butcher

myself under control. By Jim Butcher

Trials and half a dozen smaller By Jim Butcher

Hell's Bells-Harry Dresden By Jim Butcher

This is what it look like when it WORKS? By Jim Butcher

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time. By Jim Butcher

- Did you really save the world ? ... - Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot. By Jim Butcher

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity. By Jim Butcher

Bad things kept happening to me. It was high fucking time I started happening to them. Maeve By Jim Butcher

Better to have the magical arsenal and not need it, than to not have it and get killed to death. I By Jim Butcher

You walk through the door and everything goes to hell." "That's embroidered on my towels, actually. By Jim Butcher

she had that kind of matronly plumpness that comes with age, pasta, and a comfortable life. By Jim Butcher

There are many things you have never done," Rowl responded. "To be frightened of them is of no use to you. By Jim Butcher

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. By Jim Butcher

The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming. By Jim Butcher

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I said. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. By Jim Butcher

I parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots. By Jim Butcher

Don't yadda yadda the Lord, Harry. It's disrespectful. By Jim Butcher

Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while. By Jim Butcher

Mab had the kind of power you had to describe using exponents. By Jim Butcher

I died," I said. "I died and someone made a clerical error and this is heaven. By Jim Butcher

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place. By Jim Butcher

I pressed past the outer branches of the lilacs and found a small and relatively open space in the middle. Then I waited. By Jim Butcher

Sleep is God. Go worship. By Jim Butcher

He clenched his hands into fists and opened them again several times, as though strangling baby ducks. By Jim Butcher

Rowl felt sure that Bridget's fragile feelings would be crushed if he denied her the pleasure of sharing her meat with him. By Jim Butcher

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. By Jim Butcher

I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled ... By Jim Butcher

Steady as she goes, Mister Kettle," the grim gaptain said, his voice stern. By Jim Butcher

Kincaid! Bolshevik Muppet! By Jim Butcher

How long do I have to take care of it?" I asked. "SOON." "Soon? How soon is soon? What do you mean, soon? By Jim Butcher

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight. By Jim Butcher

Summer and Winter, constantly chasing each other, wounding what the other heals and healing what the other wounds. By Jim Butcher

I hate it when the real world ignores a perfectly logical, rational assumption. By Jim Butcher

I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children. By Jim Butcher

There is more to the world than what a review board publishes about an officer or aeronaut, Miss Lancaster. Guard. Your. Tongue. By Jim Butcher

Death is as light as a feather, duty heavier than a spire. By Jim Butcher

I've had a tense couple of days. And I've got to tell you, burning someone's face off sounds like a great way to relax. By Jim Butcher

Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations. By Jim Butcher

Lady Aquitaine sighed. Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum. By Jim Butcher

Life?" I suggested. She shrugged. "Desire. Loneliness. Joy. Pain." "Life," I said. By Jim Butcher

And the sex," I said. "It will be frequent. Possibly violent. You'll be screaming. Neighbors will make phone calls. By Jim Butcher

I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts. By Jim Butcher

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. By Jim Butcher

You.... tapped that ass. Presumably it was, phat? By Jim Butcher

Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless. By Jim Butcher

Everyone thinks magic is something different. By Jim Butcher

He'd died a hero. It seemed so empty to me, at that moment. Meaningless to be a hero. By Jim Butcher

Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained. By Jim Butcher

Dawn is significant, magically speaking. It is a time of new beginnings. By Jim Butcher

Could just be Chicago. Which can be just as scary as Mab, some days. By Jim Butcher

It's easy to do the right thing when it doesn't cost you. Not as easy to do the right thing when your back is to the wall." Fitz By Jim Butcher

Crap," I gasped. "I am not going to be known as the wizard who used his death curse thanks to a bunch of bitty nail guns. By Jim Butcher

You can't win a war sitting behind a wall and hoping the enemy decides to leave. By Jim Butcher

Subtle and quick to anger?" "Not so subtle. By Jim Butcher

The blow made her see stars. There was no time for astronomy in ground fighting, she thought, By Jim Butcher

Nobody can be bad at everything. There's no such thing as a perfect screwup. By Jim Butcher

Pretty please. With sugar. By Jim Butcher

I hadn't realized, until I actually heard his voice, how much I'd missed the demented little perv. By Jim Butcher

What should I do?" Uriel asked. "Sit," I said. "Stay inside. Don't put pennies in the outlets or play with matches or run with scissors. By Jim Butcher

Man sees faces. Sees skin. Flags. Membership lists. Files. God sees hearts. By Jim Butcher

In the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway. By Jim Butcher

Patiently, more gentle than rain, she made me clean, while I drifted, my eyes closed. By Jim Butcher

I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said. By Jim Butcher

I know I've screwed up," I said. "I'm going to have to live with that. But I don't want to lose you. By Jim Butcher

She came back with a can of Coke and a can of Diet Coke, and handed me the nonvile one. By Jim Butcher

Things were weird enough without needing to ride around in a van with a bunch of naked, somewhat geeky college students. By Jim Butcher

I put the ick in magic. By Jim Butcher

You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame.Sanya to Dresden By Jim Butcher

It hurts!" bellowed Ramirez drunkenly, flinging a last pair of bolts at a fleeing ghoul. "Ow! Ow, it hurts! It hurts to be this *good*! By Jim Butcher

You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony. By Jim Butcher

No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long. By Jim Butcher

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job. By Jim Butcher

Spear and magic helmet," I said in my best Elmer Fudd voice. "Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting vampires. By Jim Butcher

Good man always stands against that. By Jim Butcher

Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory. By Jim Butcher

Beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy. By Jim Butcher

There had to be something I could do. Had to be. There had to be. By Jim Butcher

I blinked slowly at that notion. "A honeymoon free of your mother-in-law." "Worth more than gold or jewels," Hades said. By Jim Butcher

My cat walked on my face just after dawn. By Jim Butcher

Finish that sentence, Raith, and we throw down, said Murphy in a calm, level voice. By Jim Butcher

Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears. By Jim Butcher

Peace cannot be bought, Aleron," he murmured to LaFortier. "History teaches that lesson. I learned it. You should have, too." LaFortier By Jim Butcher

I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. By Jim Butcher

Troubleshooters?" Michael asked."When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it. By Jim Butcher

How long have you been a Sidhe-sicle? By Jim Butcher

Vanity, thy name is vampire. By Jim Butcher

I leaned against the wall, dazed, panting, and gasped, in my deepest and most gravelly voice, No one can chain the Hulk! By Jim Butcher

Murphy, you rock! Go team Dresden!""Hey, I'm the one who rocks ... Go team Murphy. By Jim Butcher

You are the help." "We're in trouble," I said. By Jim Butcher

Of course cats [can see ghosts]. As far as I can tell, all cats. But they aren't terribly impressed with the fact that we're dead and still present. By Jim Butcher

Thank God for imminent doomsday. By Jim Butcher

planning became a great deal simpler and easier when one didn't have the additional bother of working out how to survive said plan. By Jim Butcher

The Sidhe are prancy, but fierce. By Jim Butcher

Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. By Jim Butcher

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion. By Jim Butcher

I was staring into a mirror, and I didn't like what I saw there. By Jim Butcher

The only thing certain in life is change. By Jim Butcher

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it. By Jim Butcher

Whatever happened to "Ia, Ia, Cthulu fthtagn"? ... No one has a sense of style anymore -Harry Dresden By Jim Butcher

I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it's hardly my concern. A By Jim Butcher

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself. By Jim Butcher

Like "love," "hope" is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer. By Jim Butcher

How bad is it?" "They drafted me," I said. "That's bad, all right," Bob said cheerfully. By Jim Butcher

There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once. By Jim Butcher

Light shines brightest in the deepest dark! By Jim Butcher

I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, Uh-oh. By Jim Butcher

Surely, that is merely a colorful euphemism, rather than a statement of desire. By Jim Butcher

Guru in the Ukraine, By Jim Butcher

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood. By Jim Butcher

You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it. By Jim Butcher

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought. By Jim Butcher

Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them. By Jim Butcher

Survival was not enough. One had to live. By Jim Butcher

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence. By Jim Butcher

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions. By Jim Butcher

We're all imaginary friends to one another, By Jim Butcher

Faith, Harry. God has a way of seeing to it that things fall into place. By Jim Butcher

Same result, only I'd be steam-cooked instead of roasted. By Jim Butcher

Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn't mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did. By Jim Butcher

seeing a wizard cut loose can do that to By Jim Butcher

Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it. By Jim Butcher

You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them. By Jim Butcher

He's a rather brilliant defensive tactician," Grimm said. "I agree," Bayard said. "The problem is that he's an inept defensive strategist. By Jim Butcher

But I'd never been very good at expressing myself verbally. By Jim Butcher

Lots of things are more than what they seem in a purely physical sense. By Jim Butcher

I am pure of heart and mind," I told her. "I cannot be corrupted. By Jim Butcher

Wow. That's sort of pretty. In a Jaws kind of way. By Jim Butcher

Anger subsides. Love doesn't. By Jim Butcher

You are the only man I ever met," Tera growled, "who would smash the paws that are trying to free you from certain death. By Jim Butcher

My pledge of honor upon it. By Jim Butcher

I always thought it would get easier to be a person as I aged. But it just gets more and more complicated. By Jim Butcher

I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you. By Jim Butcher

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits. By Jim Butcher

How about it, wizard? Cop? Maybe you've got stones enough to take it when I threaten you. I can admire that. By Jim Butcher

Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate. By Jim Butcher

Do not read what you don't like By Jim Butcher

The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there. By Jim Butcher

And it was all your fault, Harry. By Jim Butcher

That underlay the city of Chicago. By Jim Butcher

It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time. By Jim Butcher

Describing something helps to define it, to give it limits, to set guardrails of understanding around it. By Jim Butcher

Loopy as a crochet convention. By Jim Butcher

I gritted my teeth and got out of Butters's car, By Jim Butcher

Sometimes, son," Count Calderon said, "you have to acknowledge that your future is in someone else's hands. By Jim Butcher

I'm not exactly a useless cream puff. By Jim Butcher

I like dogs. They give Mister something to snack on. By Jim Butcher

Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick. By Jim Butcher

With your head, the wall breaks first. By Jim Butcher

You don't have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you. By Jim Butcher

Jealousy is common among lesser men, By Jim Butcher

My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps. By Jim Butcher

I trust you, she said. Three words. Big ones. Especially coming from her. By Jim Butcher

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for. By Jim Butcher

We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love. By Jim Butcher

That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington's been doing it like that for decades. By Jim Butcher

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile. By Jim Butcher

The best magic comes from the inside. By Jim Butcher

I have been beaten, but I have not yielded. I'm not going to start yielding now. By Jim Butcher

I leaned closer and gave her the look I usually save for rampaging demons and those survey people at malls. By Jim Butcher

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. By Jim Butcher

You may pretend you are like them. But you are not. By Jim Butcher

Time to start doing," I whispered. By Jim Butcher

Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones ... Words will never, et cetera. By Jim Butcher

Truth does not become untruth simply because its existence upsets the scion of a High House. By Jim Butcher

It wasn't until later that I would realize that I was babbling a chant of "Ubriacha, ubrius, ubrium," to the Peanuts theme music. By Jim Butcher

I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it. By Jim Butcher

He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there. By Jim Butcher

She held up her hand, palm up - another one of those gestures, their meanings forgotten by everyone except for long-term wackjobs like Dresden. By Jim Butcher

Erlking," I told her. "Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.""Why?" she asked."Well. I met him," I said. By Jim Butcher

They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on women. By Jim Butcher

For a second, I wanted very badly to know a spell that would let me melt through the floor in a quivering puddle of please-don't-kill-me. By Jim Butcher

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching they are your family. By Jim Butcher

We're all the hero of our own story. By Jim Butcher

I tried to take that as a life lesson: never underestimate the little people. By Jim Butcher

Hell's bells, irony blows. By Jim Butcher

If I ever invade Calderon again," he said, "it will be in the summer. By Jim Butcher

Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise. By Jim Butcher

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while. By Jim Butcher

You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep." He By Jim Butcher

And just because I don't go to bed with everything with a vagina doesn't mean I'm repressed. By Jim Butcher

Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day. By Jim Butcher

I'm a wizard. That means I have power, and power and responsibility go hand in hand. By Jim Butcher

Better the enemy you know than the enemy you don't. By Jim Butcher

You are a rare kind of crazy, man. By Jim Butcher

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else. By Jim Butcher

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether. By Jim Butcher

And several bulging bookshelves which I really will organize one day. By Jim Butcher

Martin was alphabetizing my bookshelves. They used to kill men for sacrilege like that. By Jim Butcher

My imagination needs therapy. By Jim Butcher

It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place ... By Jim Butcher

The deepest joys and most terrible wounds were both to be had from family. The By Jim Butcher

For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex. By Jim Butcher

You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table. By Jim Butcher

Ohhhh," Molly said wisely. "Those are fun-time handcuffs, not bad-time handcuffs. I gotcha. By Jim Butcher

Ack! I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me. By Jim Butcher

Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don't tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders. By Jim Butcher

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer. By Jim Butcher