Jim Butcher Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.
I hadn't gotten beaten up twice, shot, and nearly strangled to get taken out by a misguided werewolf bitch.
If he stayed close enough to Maggie for long enough, the dog might wind up with more education than me. Then there'd be no talking to him.
Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.
[He] stared at Rowl with flat eyes.
Rowl yawned his unconcern. "If you wish to keep those eyes," he said pleasantly, "move them elsewhere.
Rowl yawned his unconcern. "If you wish to keep those eyes," he said pleasantly, "move them elsewhere.
He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore.
I leaned against the wall, dazed, panting, and gasped, in my deepest and most gravelly voice, No one can chain the Hulk!
Her looks were almost extraneous. They weren't any more important to her appeal than a glass was to wine.
Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.
In the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway.
Peace cannot be bought, Aleron," he murmured to LaFortier. "History teaches that lesson. I learned it. You should have, too." LaFortier
Like "love," "hope" is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
For a second, I wanted very badly to know a spell that would let me melt through the floor in a quivering puddle of please-don't-kill-me.
Magic comes from life, from the energy of our world and from people, from their emotions and their will. That's what I had always been taught.
Just remember, Harry, I told you this was a bad idea." "Preemptive I-told-you-sos," I said. "Now I've seen everything.
Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.
A tumbleweed went rolling by in the street. I'm not even kidding. An actual, literal tumbleweed. Man, Oklahoma.
Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained.
You know, I believe it is possible to reference something other than Star Wars, boss." I narrowed my eyes in Muppetly wisdom. "That is why you fail.
The Winter inside me was torment and agony - but at least when I was immersed in it, I couldn't feel.
You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it.
Parts of Chicago are wondrous fair, and parts of Chicago look postapocalyptic. This block had seen the apocalypse come, grunted, and said, Meh.
He's a rather brilliant defensive tactician," Grimm said. "I agree," Bayard said. "The problem is that he's an inept defensive strategist.
I've had a tense couple of days. And I've got to tell you, burning someone's face off sounds like a great way to relax.
It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.
The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean.
The worst lies are almost always silence - or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.
It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.
The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight - not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable.
There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more ... secure.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I said. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett.
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.
You couldn't guess at a breed to look at him, but at least one of his parents must have been a wooly mammoth.
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.
"Serve who?"
"Heaven. Or the divine in nature. The memory of my fathers past. My fellow man. Myself. All pieces of the same thing.
Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.
Sometimes, son," Count Calderon said, "you have to acknowledge that your future is in someone else's hands.
Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.
I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn't good business.
Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy.
There are people out there who enjoy hurting and scaring others. They're going to keep doing it until you make them stop.