Jim Butcher Quotes

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“They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on.”

“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.”

“I grunted. “She’s not a delicate princess,” I said. “She’s a warrior. Warriors have enemies. Sometimes warriors get hurt.” I felt my jaws clench. “And then their friends even things up.”

“Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.”

“Why?” she asked.

“Well. I met him,” I said.”

“You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.”

“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.”

“I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.”

“There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect.”

“Thank God for imminent doomsday.”

“Okay," Kincaid said. "Anyone have any questions?"

"Why do they sell hot dogs in packages of ten but hot dog buns in packages of eight?”

“I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles”

“Lacuna peered at my shirt. "Aer-O-Smith. Arrowsmith. Does the shirt belong to your weapon dealer?"

"No."

"Then why do you wear the shirt of someone else's weapon dealer?”

“My imagination needs therapy.”

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

“Love this job," Sanya murmured. "Just love it."
"I need to challenge more people to duels," Thomas said in agreement.
"Men are pigs," Murphy said.
"Amen," said Molly.
Lea gave me a prim look and said, "I've not sacrificed a holy virgin in ages.”

“I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.”

“You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.”

“… you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.”

“Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.”

“Harry Dresden: Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Wizards and television.”

“… It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?”

“People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.”

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

“It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.”

“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.”

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

“Dresden. Am I interrupting something?"

"Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don't have enough for two.”

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

“It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, "Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?”

“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.”

“Isana felt her throat tighten.
"We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly.
"We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.”