The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“By the time I got home, it was after two o’clock in the morning. The” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I can't be under arrest right now,” I said back to him. “I don't have the time.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“So I, uh, sort of threw myself out of the passenger seat of a moving car. Don’t look at me like that.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“You need to know where to go," Sanya said. "Yes." "And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance." "Yes,"… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“A smile fought its way through her expression of pain for a moment, and she said, “Yeah, it really kind of was,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Come with me if you want to live,” I said. “Excuse me?” “No time,” I said. “It isn’t your fault, but you’re… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“This creature serves you?" Sanya asked. "This one and about a hundred smaller ones. And five times that many part-timers I can… — jim butcher Copy Share Image
“Well, I never been to much school, you understand, but it seems to me that you're assuming something you shouldn't assume... that… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Who am I? What have I done with my life? Who can I trust? That last one is a doozy. It haunts… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“You aren’t angry,” he said. “That she’s hurt.” “Like hell I’m not,” I said. “It’s coming. After we take care of her.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I... briefly wondered why I kept running into repeat uses of various locations around town. This wasn't the first time I'd dealt… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I look around me, man . . . I’m trying to do what I’ve always done, to protect people, to keep them safe from the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Like I said, magic comes from life, and especially from emotions. They're a source of the same intangible energy that everyone can… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The First Lord stared at her… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“One time, when we'd been discussing martial arts, Murphy told me that eventually, no-one can teach you anything more about them. Once… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“But… all I said was that I was scared." After what you got to experience? That's smart, kid," I said. "I'm scared,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I told you," Molly said, never looking toward me. "It's in the past. Leave it there." "You listening to my head, kiddo?"… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I stared at MacFinn for a long moment. I believed that he was telling me the truth. That he didn’t have much control, if… — Jim Butcher Copy Share
“So you really could die. Your godmother is right, you know. You are mad as a hatter. Nutty as a fruitcake.” “Crazy like a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share
“I knew I didn't have much of a chance of getting away from that swarm of fae piranha, but it was an infinitely larger… — Jim Butcher Copy Share
“I told you," Molly said, never looking toward me. "It's in the past. Leave it there." "You listening to my head, kiddo?" Her mouth… — Jim Butcher Copy Share
“Look,” I said. “Me and the island are . . . kind of partners.” “Oh, right,” Thomas said. He looked at Karrin and said, “Harry’s a geosexual.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share
“I swear , this stupid town. Why does every hideous supernatural thing that happens happen here ? I'm gone for a few months and… — Jim Butcher Copy Share
Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.” “If it was a louper, you’d know,” Bob said wisely. “In… — Jim Butcher Copy Share
“I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him." "Thwart?" Sarissa asked. "Thwart." I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something… — Jim Butcher Copy Share
“But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share
“Not everyone can be equally right, Harry.” “But believe you me, everyone can be equally wrong,” I said.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share
“He fell into step beside me and we both got into the Blue Beetle — he got in the red door. I got in… — Jim Butcher Copy Share
Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find… — Jim Butcher Copy Share
“Mort looked at the cat and sighed. “Oh, sure. Professional ectomancer with a national reputation as a medium tells you what’s going on, and… — Jim Butcher Copy Share