Jim Butcher Quotes

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

Id me didn't have to be concerned with long-term consequences. He was my instinctive, primitive self...

Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were bu...

I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters an...

You're going to have to take care of yourself," Karrin said quietly. "Over the next few weeks. Rest....

That's arrogance, Harry. " he said, gently. "On a level so deep, you don't even realize it exists. A...

BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.

I’ve had a tense couple of days. And I’ve got to tell you, burning someone’s face off sounds like a ...

Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like ...

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

...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I th...

That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture referen...

You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!

At one time in my life, a shapeshifted, demonically possessed maniac crashing through a window and t...

A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they we...

A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There ...

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, do...

Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?''To where they treat me like royalty,' I said.'We're goin...

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level...

You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black t...

Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?

Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take...

Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil que...

They'd paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and...

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip a...

There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days....

She might be the Archive, but she's still a kid, Kincaid."He frowned and looked at me. "So?""So? Kid...

Well, I never been to much school, you understand, but it seems to me that you're assuming something...

Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil que...

Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to tr...

Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focu...

I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I ...

Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten m...

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

You're supposed to be a spirit of intellect. I don't understand why you're obsessed with sex."Bob's ...

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

I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place wh...

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

She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But...

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an anno...

HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rat...

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

When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone,...

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

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

I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?""Because they're real.""How do you know?""The on...

Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean, when you think about it, jet travel i...

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you ...

Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm...

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

Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean when you think about it jet travel is ...

Karrin."She looked up at me. She looked very young somehow."Remember what I said yesterday," I said....

Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--"And?"And it...

It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent en...

Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that o...

Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time.

There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it do...

Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe l...

Rowl reminded himself that cats were eternally patient, and that he would not simply explode if he d...

Being called "dangerous" by a cat could mean a great many things, but it was generally delivered as ...

Rowl felt sure that Bridget's fragile feelings would be crushed if he denied her the pleasure of sha...

When a single cat let loose a war cry, it was an unsettling sound. When two cats suddenly wailed at ...

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

There is but one reality, that is true -- but the two of you experience it in slightly different way...

A ship's captain was her master and the right hand of God in Heaven Himself, and concerned with matt...

Back-to-back", Bayard replied, and Grimm felt the sudden, wiry pressure of the other man's shoulders...

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

Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him.

Littlemouse was in danger, doubtless a prisoner, and the humans could not be trusted to handle her r...

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.That was, he supposed, hum...

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

Didn't you read the owner's ma

...after a pointless delay for the humans to collect all their toys and keepsakes, he was able to ta...

Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute hi...

You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.

He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesti...

It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are," Benedict said, his t...

In the void, there is no distinction of east and west."Gwen blinked slightly at that. "I know all of...

If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of he...

What is going to happen to the Aurorans?""They are prisoners of war," Albion said. "I should imagine...

Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sor...

It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that i...

He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.

Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine," Grimm said...

HOW CAN YOU KNOW THIS?” the Voice demanded.“I look at things and think about them,” Folly replied. “...

When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that mig...

That's Doctor Smart-ass. I didn't spend eight years in insult college to be called Mister.

As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms.""Eh?""Kept in the dar...

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a...

This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than any of ours put together.

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

I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sa...

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

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