Jim Butcher Quotes

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,...

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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 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.

I tried not to be too obviously interested, and fumbled my notebook and trusty pencil from my duster’s pocket.

I was scared. Not in that half-pleasant adrenaline-charged way, but quietly scared. Wait-on-the-results-of-medical-tests scared. It’s a rational sort of fear that puts a lawn chair down in the front o...

I'm... I felt a little ill. You're saying... I'm pregnant?My double threw up his arms. Finally, he gets it.In years and years and years of experience as a wizard, I'd dealt with concepts, formulae, an...

I've got blisters and muscle cramps in places not meant for the touch of anything but a beautiful woman, Max spat back sullenly. I've bitten my tongue so many times in the past three days that I whist...

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 can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.

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...