Jim Butcher: Trending quotes (page 16)

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

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

“Troubleshooters?" Michael asked.

"When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.”

“Nice try?” Butters said. “Mister, where I come from, there is no try.”

“I’m lost. I know every step I took to get here, and I’m still lost.”

“Tiny," Sanya rumbled to Michael, clenching a demonstrative fist. "But.”

“The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.”

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

“I mean it," I said. "You're in danger."

"Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.”

“Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.”

“Bob 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.”

“The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.”

“Let come the forces of night! We will stand!"
"We will get the hell out of here is what we will do," I muttered.”

“Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.”

“The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.”

“Why is it that you’ve never got the least goddamned clue what’s happening inside your own head. Have you ever noticed this trend? Doesn’t it bug you sometimes?”

“There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once.”

“She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?”

“I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.”