Jim Butcher Quotes

We’re all imaginary friends to one another,

If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat an...

If you want to live, if you want your friends and family to live, I expect you to do more than survive it, Mab said, sweeping out. I expect you to skin them alive.

If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.

What should I do? Uriel asked. Sit, I said. Stay inside. Don’t put pennies in the outlets or play with matches or run with scissors.

If I ever invade Calderon again, he said, it will be in the summer.

If I could publish actual interviews with vampires— Sheesh, Susan. You’re reading too much off the bestseller list. In

Hell's bells, Morty, I said. Next you'll be telling me that I didn't even meet his shade. That I deluded myself into deluding myself into deluding him into deluding me that I made the whole thing up.

Hell's bells, Susan, you don't know what you've done. You've got to get outof here.She snorted. Like hell.I mean it, I said. You're in danger.Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not...

With your head, the wall breaks first.

I work in grand halls and bedchambers with wine and perfume. Not in dark alleyways with cloaks and knives. I don’t like knives. I don’t even own a knife. And my cloaks are far too expensive to risk bl...

I was casting everything I had done, everything I believed, everything I had chosen—everything I was—against the will of an ancient being of darkness, terror, and malice, a fundamental power of the wo...

Yeah, I should probably eat more vegetables, too, I said, but let’s face it. That isn’t going to happen. So what’s up?

A man glided out of the limo. He was tall, pale as a statue. Sable hair fell in tousled curls to his shoulders. He was dressed in a pair of opalescent butterfly wings that rose from his shoulders, fas...

It would be a real pity to die when I’d finally put tabs on who had gotten me into this mess—

Another pang of half-remembered days long gone made my chest ache for a second.

I did tell you, I said. I told you at Mac's that I'd give you a ride home, but I had to run an errand first.Thomas scowled. An *errand* is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or somet...

I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wiz...

I looked past him to the snack table. It was indeed piled with doughnuts of a number of varieties. Some of them even had sprinkles. My mouth started a quick impression of a minor tributary. But they w...

I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.