Jim Butcher Quotes

Billy squinted at me. Why are you letting them go?Because they're real.How do you know?The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

Bloody hell, he gasped. Harry. There's a *knife* in my leg. When did *that* happen?In the duel, I told him. Don't you remember?I thought you'd stepped on me and sprained my ankle, Ramirez replied. The...

Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner....

Bob, I said over my shoulder. Tell her it's me.Can't, Bob said in a dreamy tone. Boobs.

But I’d never been very good at expressing myself verbally.

But a century from now, your mortal associates will be rotting in the earth, whereas, barring amputation or radical shifts in fashion, you will still be putting your pants on one leg at a time.

But just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.

But that's just it. I ... I don't want to go. I don't want to see that... She glanced aside at Mouse and shuddered. Blood, like that. I don't remember what happened when you and Mother saved me from A...

But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart,...

But you can’t go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient.

But, as it turned out, hell got up awfully early in the morning.

Butters, he said. Look. I know it’s hard. But there’s one way you deal with fear. How? I asked him. You stand up and you kick it in the fucking teeth,

Butters’s voice turned bitter. Them or us, choose a side? It’s not about taking sides, Karrin said. It’s about knowing yourself. About understanding why you make the choices you do. Once you know that...

Chew and smile? At the same time? Do I look like Jackie Chan?

Chicago is an alien citadel, a source of power and terror. Mordor, basically. (One does not simply walk into Mordor - except that was exactly what everyone in the story did anyway.)

Chicago. It’s insane and violent and corrupt and vital and artistic and noble and cruel and wonderful. It’s full of greed and hope and hate and desire and excitement and pain and happiness. The air si...

Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves.

Children have their own kind of power. When you’re teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be.

Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing -- which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Al...

Close your cowardly lips over that void in your head where your brains went missing and keep them there. Then put your lazy, shapeless ass back into your chair and do it swiftly. Or face me in the jur...