Jim Butcher Quotes

I hate it when a plan falls apart.

I will not live in a realm where calculations of power supersede justice and law - regardless of how inconvenient that may be to the Crown.

Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean when you think about it jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane it defies the gravity of a entire planet by exploitin...

Man sees faces. Sees skin. Flags. Membership lists. Files. God sees hearts.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

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

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

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

She came back with a can of Coke and a can of Diet Coke, and handed me the nonvile one.

Peabody may not have seen the man turn into a grizzly, but he was bright enough to know that Injun Joe was getting set to adjust another relative ass-to-ears ratio.

I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and...

That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate.

I... drew out the gun I kept at home, a great big old Dirty Harry Callahan number that weighed about seventy-five thousand pounds.

My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that problem with the elevator last year. I don't care what anyone says,...

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even - those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices that they wou...

Never walk into a fight when the bad guys are the ones who set it up.

Susan’s fingers wandered, and her eyes sparkled. Your mouth says no, she purred, but says yes.I went up on my toes, and swallowed, trying to keep my balance and get her hand off me at the same time....

I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer fr...

Do you know what I think? Marcone said.You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.Yes.I drew my gun. Okay.

Rowl reminded himself that cats were eternally patient, and that he would not simply explode if he did not fling himself from Littlemouse's arms and go exploring. Which was not to say that he could no...