Jim Butcher Quotes

The best magic comes from the inside.

I’m a wizard. That means I have power, and power and responsibility go hand in hand.

The water near me stirred and then a Sharkface rose up out of it as if on an elevator, slow, his mouth tilted up into a small smile. He stood there on the water perhaps five feet away from me. His eye...

Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations. I

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.

I'm not a Wiccan. I'm not big on churches of any kind, despite the fact that I've spoken, face-to-face, with an archangel of the Almighty.But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had fa...

It gets sort of Zen after a while, Butters said brightly. Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.

When a mortal dreams, all kinds of strange things can happen. When a wizard dreams, it can be even weirder. Sometimes, dreams can be intense enough to create a little, temporary world of their own.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts...

There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predi...

I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me that took a dark joy in gathering all the power it could and using it as I saw fit, everything...

My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk.

It would only take one dummy to kill us all, and we had four hundred and ninety-nine to spare.

After a few minutes, Molly came partway up the short ladder to the bridge and stopped. Do I need to ask permission to come up there or something?Why would you? I asked.She considered. It's what they d...

There’s power in the touch of another person’s hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There’s a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands. It comes from our ve...

But even with centuries of experience, I doubted any of them had ever been hit with a water balloon. Or with a holy-water balloon, either. I kept three of them in the box in my car, in easy reach.

Like I said, magic comes from life, and especially from emotions. They're a source of the same intangible energy that everyone can feel when an autumn moon rises and fills you with a sudden sense of b...

So I added in all the pains I'd learned. Cooking blunders I'd had to eat anyways. Equipment and property constantly breaking down, needing repairs and attention. Tax insanity, and rushing around tryin...

One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored.