Jim Butcher Quotes

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.

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 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 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 can't manage courtesy, try silence.

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

If you weren't getting pretty close to crazy right now, would you be talking to yourself right now?

In for a sheep, in for a gargant.

It doesn't take much power to hurt someone, she said. It's far easier than healing the damage.

It is the nature of the universe that things remain. Nothing ever disappears completely. The very sound of Creation still echoes throughout the vast darkness: The universe remembers.

It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the ph...