Jim Butcher
131 quotes
Biography
"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family."
"Are you always a smartass?'Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep."
"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar"
"We are not going to die."Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?""No. And do you know why?"He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die."I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die."
"We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville."
"You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony."
"In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!"
"I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven."
"So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?"
"Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car."
"Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions."
"I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry."
"Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side."
"But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything."
"The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right.I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, "Fuck subtle."
"I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts."
"You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me."
"I still can't believe,"Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire."
"Ack!"I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me."
"In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic."
"Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!"
"There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward."
"Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes."
"Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart."
"You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!"