Jim Butcher Quotes

I nodded to her. Then I eyed Maeve. What about you? Holding anything back?I want to take you to my bower, wizard, Maeve said, and licked her lips. I want to do things to you that give you such pleasur...

I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to def...

I put the ick in magic.

I react badly to fear. I don’t usually have the good sense to run, or hide—I just try to smash whatever it is that is making me afraid. It’s a primitive sort of thing, and one I don’t question too muc...

I respected the man. It didn’t mean that I wouldn’t pants him on national television if I got the opportunity,

I run—and not so that I’ll be skinny and look good, either. I run so that when something that wants to kill me is chasing me, I’ll be good at running.

I scowled at him. Not every good thing that happens is divine intervention, Michael. True, Michael said, but I prefer to give Him the credit unless I have a good reason to believe otherwise. It seems...

I scowled. Murphy’s made of muscle. You just can’t see it under the suit and the body armor, I said. And she hasn’t gotten lucky with me either. Ascher stared at me for a second and blinked slowly. Yo...

I secured a doughnut and coffee. I checked with Karrin and Valmont. Neither wanted to save the doughnuts from Nicodemus’s corruptive influence. Not everyone can be a crusader like me.

I serve.Serve who?Heaven. Or the divine in nature. The memory of my fathers past. My fellow man. Myself. All pieces of the same thing.

I set things down and locked up my wards and the heavy steel door I’d had installed after a big, bad demon had huffed and puffed and blown down the original. It wasn’t until I had them all firmly secu...

I settled in and told Michael, Now, if only we had some Wagner to send us on our way.I saw Gard's reflection in the chopper's front windows look up at my words. Then she flicked a couple of switches,...

I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.

I should far rather be drunk than eaten, Miss Lancaster, Ferus said in a serious tone. As should we all. Very well, that’s settled.

I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it’s hardly my concern. A

I snorted. They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations? Yeah. You can stay at home and hide if you want—and wind up like Miss Havisham, I said. Watching life through a window and ob...

I was sitting in my lab, my hand spread open on the table, while the skull examined my palm.I'd worn a mark there for years--an unblemished patch of skin amidst all the burn scars, in the perfect shap...

I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.

If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.

If you’re right, they aren’t the deceased, Murphy said. They’re the victims. Big difference. Which is it? Wish I could say, I said. But the only evidence that could prove it one way or another is leak...