Jim Butcher Quotes

Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained.

Sanya, I said. Who did I get cast as? Sam, Sanya said. I blinked at him. Not . . . Oh, for crying out loud, it was perfectly obvious who I should have been. Sanya shrugged. It was no contest. They gav...

See, that’s the tragedy of the human condition. No one wants to be corrupted by power when they set out to get it. They have good, even noble reasons for doing whatever it is they do. They don’t want...

She could be a pain in the ass, but she was one gutsy chick. Her kids were lucky to have a mother like her. A lot of moms would say that they would die for their children. Charity had placed herself s...

She had never gotten it through her gentle head that there was a time for a soft paw and a time for red claws.

She kissed me again, and I returned it in kind, and it was a liquid, smooth thing, as restrained and desperate as the near-still surface of a rushing river.

She might be the Archive, but she's still a kid, Kincaid.He frowned and looked at me. So?So? Kids like cute.He blinked at me. Cute?Come on.I led him downstairs.On the lower level of the Oceanarium the...

She pressed the rest of her clothes into my hands and said, Don't do anything weird with them.I was going to shellac them into a dining set and serve a four-course meal in them, I said, but if you're...

She put her hands on his face, and whispered Death is nothing to me, chala. Not if we are together. Death is not to be feared. She leaned forward and kissed his mouth, very gently. Then she rested her...

She was a complex woman, Anastasia said. Brilliant, erratic, passionate, committed, idealistic, talented, charming, insulting, bold, incautious, arrogant—and short-sighted, yes.

She's going to do nothing but try to trick information out of me that I shouldn't be giving her, Mac, I said.Ungh, Mac agreed.Why did I say yes?Mac shrugged.She's pretty, I said. Smart. Sexy.Ungh.Any...

Sit down, she said,

So I, uh, sort of threw myself out of the passenger seat of a moving car. Don’t look at me like that. I’m telling you, it made sense at the time.

So in addition to a feisty new Black Court partner in the war dance between the Council and the Vampire Courts, I also got angry lust bunny movies stars, deadly curses, and a thoroughly embarrassing j...

So many terrible things are done for love, Mab’s voice said. For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, a...

So once again, let me be perfectly clear. If anything happens to Murphy and I even *think* you had a hand in it, fuck right and wrong. If you touch her, I'm declaring war on you.

Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

Some men fall from grace. Some are pushed.

Something was trying to dig its way beneath the wall and into the garage, practically right underneath my butt. I felt a chill of fear, followed swiftly by anger at the thing that had added to already...

Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.