Jim Butcher Quotes

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

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...

Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!

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

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.

I knew what it was like to have holes in my life in the shape of people who should have been there.

I’m getting dumber by the minute, I confirmed. Ask anybody.

My imagination needs therapy.

Dressed in black slacks and a grey silk shirt, and

Kincaid! Bolshevik Muppet!

Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

Stop, Kincaid said in a calm voice. Unclench.Unclench what? Murphy demanded.Unclench your ass. me?You're going to trip the beam. You need another quarter inch. Relax.I am relaxed, Murphy growled.Oh, K...

I’d fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.

Summer and Winter, constantly chasing each other, wounding what the other heals and healing what the other wounds.

Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed. Araris

It’s easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back.

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...

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...

It's a tradition, Grimm said. Were traditions rational, they’d be procedures.

There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a...