Jim Butcher Quotes page 2

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

Source: Storm Front

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

Source: Fool Moon

“Harry Dresden: Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!”

Jim Butcher The Dresden Files

Source: The Dresden Files, Fool Moon (2001), Chapter 18

“Polka will never die.”

“Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.”

Source: Dead Beat

“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.”

Source: Storm Front

Jim Butcher book Vignette

Source: Vignette

“Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.”

“Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.”

Variant: Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?"

"Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead, I said solemnly, and frosting of white.
Source: Small Favor

“Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.”

Source: Changes

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

Source: Dead Beat

“She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles."

Wizards don't giggle," I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling.”

Source: White Night

“Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.”

Source: Changes

“Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?”

Source: White Night

“Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.”

Source: Small Favor

“Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.”

Source: Changes

“Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.”

Source: White Night

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

Source: Fool Moon

“Harry Dresden: Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”

“If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.”

Source: The Dresden Files, White Night (2007), Chapter 1, Opening line

“Hell's bells, irony blows.”

Source: Changes

“Harry Dresden: Dresden Taxidermy. You snuff it, we'll stuff it.”

Source: Blood Rites

Jim Butcher book Mean Streets

Source: The Dresden Files, Proven Guilty (2006), Chapter 24
Source: Mean Streets

“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.”

“A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.”

Source: Small Favor

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

Source: Blood Rites

Jim Butcher book Vignette

Source: Vignette

“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.”

“That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.”

Source: White Night

“There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.”

Source: Small Favor

Jim Butcher book Ghost Story

Source: Ghost Story

“Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!”

“Carlos Ramirez: Everyone else who lets me ride on their dinosaur calls me Carlos.”

Source: Blood Rites

“How long have you been a Wiccan?'
'A what?'
'A pagan. A witch.'
'I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.'
Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?'
'Wizard has a Z'
He looked at me blankly.
'No one appreciates me.' I muttered.”

Source: The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005), Chapter 41
Source: White Night

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: Death Masks

“Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

“‎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.”

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

Source: Fool Moon

“And thrice do I say to thee… bite me.”

Jim Butcher

“Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: Death Masks

“You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.”

“I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.”

Source: Storm Front

“Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.”

Source: Dead Beat

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

“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.”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: Death Masks

“I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.”

“Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.”

Source: Dead Beat

Jim Butcher book Skin Game

Source: Skin Game

“I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

“I don't believe in faeries!”

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

Source: Summer Knight

“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.”

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“Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.”

“I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.”

Source: Storm Front

“Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.”

Source: Dead Beat

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

Source: Blood Rites

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

Source: Summer Knight

“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.”

“I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.”

Source: Dead Beat

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

“There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.”