Jim Butcher Quotes

Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

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.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry." I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.” “Why?” she asked. “Well. I met him,” I said.

Me and polite have never been on close terms.

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.

I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms." "Eh?" "Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.

Knight takes Knight,” I called into the cloudy night air. “Check.

I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.

Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.

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

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

You killed my dog! Get your affairs in order.

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.

When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.

In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.

It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.

I like dogs. They give Mister something to snack on.

We're all so damned fragile.

Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.

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

Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

Troubleshooters?" Michael asked. "When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.

Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too. "It's cute," I whispered to Murphy. "He has a teddy Glock.

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.

Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!

You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

I admit," Morgan said with another withering look, "it's no donut.

I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.

Demonreach only wants Harry to see what's going on." "Why doesn't it just marry him?" Thomas muttered under his breath. "It sort of did," I said. "My brother the... geosexual?

Lies. Mab cannot change who you are.

I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly." ~Harry Dresden

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.

You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.

This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.

Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.