Jim Butcher Quotes: 56

• When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family.

• Are you always a smartass?'Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

  Blood Rites

• Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar

  Dead Beat

• We are not going to die."Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" "No. And do you know why?"He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die."I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

  Dead Beat

• We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

  Grave Peril

• You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.

  Summer Knight

• In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

  Summer Knight

• I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

  Summer Knight

• So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

  Death Masks

• Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

  Small Favor

• Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

  Death Masks

• I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry.

  My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

• Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

  Dead Beat

• But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

  White Night

• The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right.I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, "Fuck subtle.

  Changes

• I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

  Storm Front

• You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

  Proven Guilty

• I still can't believe,"Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.

  Grave Peril

• Ack!"I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

  Changes

• In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

  Dead Beat

• Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!

• There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

  Death Masks

• Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes.

  White Night

• Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.

  Blood Rites

• You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!

  Small Favor

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

  Storm Front

• It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

  Death Masks

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

  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.

  White Night

• Harry,"Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

  Storm Front

• Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?

  Small Favor

• 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.

  Changes

• Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

  White Night

• Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

  White Night

• Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original."Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy.

  Changes

• 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.

  Small Favor

• Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

  Vignette

• I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

  Grave Peril

• 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.

  Death Masks

• It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.I turned around and ran like hell.

  Death Masks

• Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.

  Proven Guilty

• Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells.

  Blood Rites

• If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.

  Changes

• 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.

  Death Masks

• 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.

  Dead Beat

• 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.

  Changes

• God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

• Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

  White Night

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

  Death Masks

• If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

  Dead Beat

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