Jim Butcher Quotes

I know how you feel, I said. You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always h...

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...

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

My wallet was getting even more anorexic than usual. At this rate I wouldn't be able to afford to protect mankind from the perils of black magic. Hells bells, that would be really embarrassing.

Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day.

You're in America now, I said. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

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

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

Harry Dresden—I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day.

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...

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.

We still hadn’t learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you’re just going to get hurt again. But...

The Carpenters had a threshold more solid and extensive than the Great Wall of China. I would not be in the least bit surprised if you could see it from space.

The world seems dark and ugly sometimes. But there are still good things in it. And good people.

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

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

I nodded and sipped my own. Wow. Mac’s beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy.

It isn't complicated. You just open up and let someone in. And whatever comes after that, you face it together.

Tiny, Sanya rumbled to Michael, clenching a demonstrative fist. But .

Marcone's scum, but he's his own scum -Harry Dresden