Jim Butcher: Trending quotes (page 13)

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

“It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.”

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

“Some men fall from grace. Some are pushed.”

“Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones… Words will never, et cetera.”

“Kid. You just made the last mistake of your life.'
'God,' I said. 'I.”

“I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away.”

“It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that.

"And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.”

“There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.”

“I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.”

“I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab’s bed.

(My life. Hell’s bells.)”

“I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.”

“But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side… and had them start off screaming, "BOO!”

“Harry Dresden: Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men’s auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.”

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

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

“I made a sandwich out of things. I'm an American. We can eat anything as long as it's between two pieces of bread.”

“It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.”

“He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.”