Jim Butcher Quotes

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...

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.

Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic, and they don't need a special effects budget to do it, either.

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

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

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...

Woof, said Billy the Werewolf.

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...

There is something holy, something divine, hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.''What's that supposed to mean?' I asked.'That the good that will come...

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

Staff cutbacks that meant nurses were working their asses off to cover the basics and, as a result, were barely maintaining a white-knuckled grip on civility. Bottom line: she hated hospitals for the...

I hear that they make disinfectants that don’t hurt these days. But Charity used iodine.

Books were expensive, as well. But she’d read enough of them to know that they were only as valuable as the contents of their writers’ minds—and to her it seemed that a great many writers, had they be...

The force of the blast did not scatter the crystals, as Bridget’s common sense told her it absolutely should have. Instead it just seemed to disperse, spreading out like a wave. Where the wave spread,...

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 each time, you learn something.

I have, in general, not had fun during my service as a Warden of the White Council. I have taken no enjoyment whatsoever in becoming a soldier in the war with the Vampire Courts. Doing battle with the...

The blow made her see stars. There was no time for astronomy in ground fighting, she thought,