Jim Butcher Quotes

Nicodemus is a murderous murdering murderer...

Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.

Nobel prize for pornography.

Not like those Dungeons and Dragons games. The real thing. He bought some of those tarot cards. She pronounced it like carrot. Amateurs.

Nothing is truly safe in this world—and that being the case, why worry about threats that have not yet appeared? Far wiser to make what preparations one could, face trouble as it arose, and be happy i...

Now hear me, brother, I said gently. Cease your attempts to harm my humans. Depart this city. Do not come back. Or else? he asked. There is nothing else, I replied calmly. You will do these things. Th...

Of course cats [can see ghosts]. As far as I can tell, all cats. But they aren't terribly impressed with the fact that we're dead and still present.

Oh, I get it, I said. You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

Okay, I said. I'm going to do something I know you both hate. I'm going to get direct. And I'm going to get direct answers from you, answers that convince me that you aren't trying to hide anything fr...

One time, when we'd been discussing martial arts, Murphy told me that eventually, no-one can teach you anything more about them. Once you reach that state of knowledge, the only way to keep learning a...

Peace cannot be bought, Aleron, he murmured to LaFortier. History teaches that lesson. I learned it. You should have, too. LaFortier

People who ask questions and think about their faith are the last ones to embrace dogma -- and the last to abandon their path once they've set out on it. I felt fairly sure that the Almighty, whatever...

People who know diddly about wizards don’t like to give us their names. They’re convinced that if they give a wizard their name from their own lips it could be used against them. To be fair, they’re r...

Plan B, I said. Okay, right. We need a plan B. If we only had a wheelbarrow, that would be something. Susan let out a puff of laughter, and then I turned to her, my eyes alight. We have a great big tr...

Playing cat and mouse is generally only fun for the cat.

Polka will never die.

Professional Wizard Incinerates Amateur Vampire. News at ten.

Race me back. Beat me there, and I’ll tell you. I blinked. What kind of kindergarten crap is that? His grey eyes flashed with anger. You want to know what it’s like? Beat me down the beach. Of all the...

Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get d...

Rip her dress off! Bob shouted. Bob the Skull takes paperback romances very seriously. The next page turned so quickly that he tore the paper a little. Bob is even harder on books than I am.That’s wha...