Jim Butcher Quotes

Andi's eyes widened. Bob. . .is it really him?Yes, but he works for the bad guys now, Bob said. It's probably safest to shoot him.

Anger subsides. Love doesn’t.

Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wiza...

Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word.

Anyway, my office is small - one room, but on the corner, with a couple of windows. The sign on the door reads, simply, HARRY DRESDEN, WIZARD. Just inside the door is a table, covered with pamphlets w...

As far as I can tell, all cats [can see ghosts.] But they aren't terribly impressed with the fact that we're dead and still present. One rarely gets a reaction from them.

As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms.Eh?Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.

As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'? The skull howled with laughter. You just got your ass handed to you by a ?I wouldn't say they handed me my ass, I said.Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, a...

As long as we’re going, we might as well go out in style.

At one time in my life, a shapeshifted, demonically possessed maniac crashing through a window and trying to rip my face off would have come as an enormous and nasty surprise.But that time was pretty...

At that, Ascher stood up. Hi, she said, smiling brightly. You don’t know me. I’m Hannah. Back off my partner before you get hurt. I know who you are, hot stuff, I drawled, not standing. I set my staff...

Aye, Skipper! Journeyman said.

Beards grow out so fast that if you shave every day, there isn’t much of a window for anyone to use them against you—and shaved stubble is too diffuse to make a decent channel anyway.

Because Nicodemus is a murderous murdering murderer, I said.

Because…fear is a terrible, insidious thing, Waldo. It taints and stains everything it touches, Waldo. If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all. I...

Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away. My

Belief in a story, Uriel said, of good confronting evil, of light overcoming darkness, of love transcending hate. He tilted his head. Isn’t that where all faith begins?

Better safe than exsanguinated.

Better to have the magical arsenal and not need it, than to not have it and get killed to death. I

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them,