Jim Butcher Quotes

Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan?...

I slip into the archaic at dramatically appropriate moments. So sue me.

Truth be told, my head was spinning so much that the car could have been doing interpretive dance in a lilac tutu and I might not have noticed.

In the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway.

His scent like leather and fresh wind,

I'm afraid you made a serious mistake today.Sire?You proved yourself extraordinarily capable, Captain, Albion said. I can hardly let something like that go unremarked.I don't understand, sir, Grimm sa...

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

Sometimes I think that’s where most of us are, I said. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It’s that second bit that’s important.

I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

I was staring into a mirror, and I didn’t like what I saw there.

Sometimes you get what's coming around. And sometimes, you are what's coming around.

But you'd get arguments from all kinds of people that the Bible has got to be perfect. That God would not permit such errors to be made in the Holy Word.I thought God gave everyone free will. Which wo...

I would beat you to crap if you didn’t already look like it,

So, ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless...

For you? A relic, he said. A what? An artifact, Mister Dresden. An antique possessed by the Church for several centuries.

Id me didn't have to be concerned with long-term consequences. He was my instinctive, primitive self, driven by my most primal impulses. I wondered, briefly, if 'id' and 'idiot' came from the same roo...

Woof, said Billy the Werewolf.

Sanya told you about his beliefs.' I felt the corners of my mouth start to twinge as another smile threatened. 'Yeah.' Shiro let out a pleased snort. 'Sanya is a good man.' 'I just don't get why he'd...

I slammed the water off hard enough to make it clack, got out of the shower, dried, and started getting dressed in a fresh set of secondhand clothes.Why do you wear those? asked Lacuna. I jumped, stum...

Wizardry aside, it’s tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats.