Jim Butcher Quotes

Then this, Grimm said, is what I believe professional inquisitors refer to as a clue.In my considered judgment as an occasional inquisitor for the Spirearch, Benedict said, I believe you may be correc...

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

Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than the uselessly struct...

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

I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done. I turned around and ran like hell.

Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise e...

I think men who lust for power are capable of almost anything.

It's not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it.

Harry, life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick of things, sometimes it's hard for us to tell. You didn't do what you did for your own...

You’re a genuine Greek god. You’re the Lord of the Underworld. And . . . you named your dog Spot?

Are you serious? What the hell does a stunt double do in a porno flick?Jake waved a hand vaguely toward his belt. Extreme close-ups.Uh. What?Historically speaking, it doesn't happen often. Especially...

Arrogance, I said. I feel stupid. Good, Michael said. It’s good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.

I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn’t good business.

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.

Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore.Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, Ee...

Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadn't learned, thoug...

With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.

I'm not a philosopher, Harry, [Michael] said. But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around. He paused for a moment,...

Internet, she said sagely. Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.

Gandalf never had this kind of problem. He had exactly this problem, actually, standing in front of the hidden Dwarf door to Moria. Remember when . . . I sighed. Sometimes my inner monologue annoys ev...