Jim Butcher Quotes

The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold.

There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes y...

There are people who love you, Faith. Or who one day will. Even if you can't see them beside you, right here, right now, they're out there. But if you let the dark get into your eyes, you might never...

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, What's up, boss?Evil's afoot.Well, sure, Bob said, because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise...

There’s more magic in a baby’s first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don’t let anyone tell you any different. Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You ca...

There’s power in the touch of another person’s hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There’s a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands.

These evil freaks, Karrin said. They always pick the most charming places to hang out.Dark energy here, I said. Keeps people from wandering in and randomly interfering. And it feels homey.I know you h...

They ambushed us. But . . . Bridget said. Gwen . . . the fight started when you [shot] into that officer’s face. It is hardly my fault if they did not ambush us more effectively than they did,

They didn’t want to kill me. They wanted to hurt me. And they were good at it.

They say that you’re the real thing, Mister Dresden. A real magus. They also say I’m nutty as a fruitcake. I choose which ‘they’ I listen to very carefully,

They were huge, six feet long not including the tail, and as high as my belly at their shoulders. Their entirely human eyes shone, as did their bared fangs.

Think where you are, sir Knight, Nicodemus said, his mouth quirking up into a mocking smile. The Underworld is a prison for souls. Do you think yours is so great as to escape it? I am not great, Micha...

This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.

This is what it look like when it WORKS?

This is what it looks like when someone's fighting for his soul, she said. He needs his friends to believe in him. The fastest way for us to help make him into a monster is to look at him like he is o...

This thing was power from the Outside, and I was a grain of sand to its oncoming tide. But you know what? That grain of sand might be the last remnant of what had once been a mountain, but that which...

Thomas didn't want to go into the church because he wasn't optimistic that the Almighty and his institutions would smile on him. Like me, he favored maintaining a low profile with regards to matters t...

Thomas grunted. Might have been smarter for them to have left you alone. Now you know something.I made an exasperated sound. Yes. Those fools. By trying to kill me, they've revealed their very souls....

Thomas scowled. An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo.