Jim Butcher Quotes

I limped over to Luccio and nodded at the tables Mac had set up. I hope there’s room enough. When are the other Wardens arriving? Luccio fixed me with a quiet, weary gaze. Then she drew her hands from...

I listened. Listening isn’t hard to do. No one has practice at it, nowadays, but you can train yourself to pay attention to your senses if you work at it long enough.

About Author

Jim Butcher (born October 26, 1971) is an American author. He has written the contemporary fantasy The Dresden Files, Codex Alera, and Cinder Spires book series.

I looked from the gadget-readied spear and body armor to my slender staff of plain old wood and leather duster.My dick is better than your dick, I said.

I looked, noted details mechanically, and quietly shut the door on the part of my head that had started screaming the second I entered the room.

I love watching him think, Maeve told Lily. You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions.But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice.It’s...

I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team.

I might not have any magic available to me, but that didn't make me any less of a wizard, one of the magi, the wise. That's the true power of a wizard.

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 parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots.

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 smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, The only people who never hurt are dead.

I snagged a golden paper crown from one of the bags, and idly joined it into a circle and put it on my head. Susan blinked at me and let out a brief laugh. 'I am' I intoned with an imperious narrowing...

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 sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.

I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser.

If I could publish actual interviews with vampires— Sheesh, Susan. You’re reading too much off the bestseller list. In

If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.