Jim Butcher Quotes

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

Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.

I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.

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.

The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

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

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.

I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

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

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.

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

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

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

Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

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.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

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.

Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?

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

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

Survival was not enough. One had to live.

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

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

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

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.

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden

I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

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

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

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

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

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

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.