Jim Butcher Quotes

Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes

Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.

That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

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.

Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.

Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.

Thank God for wisecracks.

Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!

Marcone's scum... But he's his own scum.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

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

Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?

Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?" Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?

Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.

This is what it look like when it WORKS?

Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry--" Assault formation!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Hell's bells, irony blows.

You're such a cynic, " Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute.

Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.

I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.

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.

It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.

Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?"Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

Let come the forces of night! We will stand!" "We will get the hell out of here is what we will do, " I muttered.

See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

My dear cousin has a very odd relationship with fear -- though mostly she's too busy to be bothered with it.

Fear is really quite tedious. She wanted to be rid of it as soon as possible.

You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it.

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.

I had this teacher who kept telling me that if I was ever in a fair fight, someone had made a mistake, ” she said

Gruff, ” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.

Didn't you read the owner's ma

That woman, " Grimm said quietly, "drives me quite insane."Kettle grunted. "Why'd you marry her, then?

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

In the void, there is no distinction of east and west."Gwen blinked slightly at that. "I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean.

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

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.

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

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