Jim Butcher

“Kincaid! Bolshevik Muppet!”

— Jim Butcher

Molly was committing dinner. . .

— Jim Butcher

“Men plan. Fate Laughs.”

— Jim Butcher

We're all so damned fragile.

— Jim Butcher

Lies. Mab cannot change who you are.

— Jim Butcher

I don't believe in faeries!

— Jim Butcher

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

— Jim Butcher

“Sit down,” she said,”

— Jim Butcher

“I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.”

— Jim Butcher

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

— Jim Butcher

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

— Jim Butcher

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

— Jim Butcher

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.

— Jim Butcher

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

— Jim Butcher

I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

— Jim Butcher

“I gritted my teeth and got out of Butters’s car,”

— Jim Butcher

“That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington’s been doing it like that for decades.”

— Jim Butcher

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich…

— Jim Butcher

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

— Jim Butcher

“Mab narrowed her eyes, and a little smile graced her lips. “Impudent,” she said. “It’s sweet on you.”

— Jim Butcher

I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.

— Jim Butcher

“beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy.”

— Jim Butcher

Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.

— Jim Butcher

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

— Jim Butcher

“A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. "Get more away. I've been…

— Jim Butcher

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

Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making…

— Jim Butcher

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…

— Jim Butcher

“Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the…

— Jim Butcher

“I knew I didn't have much of a chance of getting away from that swarm of fae piranha, but it was an…

— Jim Butcher

So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know.…

— Jim Butcher

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got…

— Jim Butcher

“Why?” I asked him tiredly. “What would it have changed? What could you possibly have said that would have made a difference?”…

— Jim Butcher

“Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of…

— Jim Butcher

“...nameless hideous monsters are freaking terrifying. You always fear what you don't know, what you don't understand, and the first step to…

— Jim Butcher

“You already beat yourself up for enough things that aren't your fault. People who care don't want to add to that." He…

— Jim Butcher

“You think your power is what shapes the world you walk in. But that is an illusion. Your choices shape your world.…

— Jim Butcher

Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector…

— Jim Butcher

As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a…

— Jim Butcher

... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and…

— Jim Butcher