Jim Butcher Quotes

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

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

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

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

HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

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

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

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

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

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

Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.

I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.

The movie of my life must be really low budget.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.” “You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked. “What is that?” she asked.

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.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

Sleep is God. Go worship.

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!

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

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

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

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

Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

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

And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos

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

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

Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.

Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

I don't believe in faeries!

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.

No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.