Jim Butcher Quotes

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.

I made a sandwich out of things. I'm an American. We can eat anything as long as it's between two pieces of bread.

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original.Then I vindictiv...

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

Epic sex? I sputtered. By what standards, precisely, is sex judged to be epic?And tons and tons of mortal simps like you used as pawns. Bob sighed happily, ignoring my question. There are no words. It...

Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They...

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when...

There is no spoon.

Lady Placida smiled. History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an argument could be made that you very much did earn the title.Many women h...

Mortimer Lindquist seemed to have finally given in to the inevitable. I'd seen him with a bad toupee, and with an even worse comb-over, but this was the first time I'd seen him sporting a full-on Char...

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you.

I'm afraid it isn't good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad.

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.

He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan

They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one...