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“Vanity, thy name is vampire.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

“Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.”

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

Source: Fool Moon

“Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."

Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: Blood Rites

“Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry."

I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

“We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

“I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.”

Jim Butcher book Small Favor

Source: Small Favor

“I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: Blood Rites

“Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.”

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“There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.”

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

“The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.”

Jim Butcher book White Night

Source: White Night

“I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

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

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: Death Masks

“Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

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

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

“But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness . . .. . . which could obviously be redeemed only by passing through the fiery, cleansing inferno of a wizardly digestive tract.”

Jim Butcher book Skin Game

Source: Skin Game

“I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: Blood Rites

“When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic,” I said. “When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

“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.”

Jim Butcher

Source: Blood Lite

“My gast was pretty well flabbered.”

Jim Butcher book Ghost Story

Source: Ghost Story