“Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine," Grimm said.” — Jim Butcher Determination Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts. — Jim Butcher Cry Copy Share Image
“How about it, wizard? Cop? Maybe you’ve got stones enough to take it when I threaten you. I can admire that.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.” — Jim Butcher Darkness Copy Share Image
“In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.” — Jim Butcher Bianca Copy Share Image
I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have… — Jim Butcher Harry dresden Copy Share Image
“Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of… — Jim Butcher Fairies Copy Share Image
“I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned,… — Jim Butcher Cold days Copy Share Image
“And as I looked at him, I suddenly felt, for the very first time in my life, utterly, entirely alone. That something… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get… — Jim Butcher Age Copy Share Image
“My brother threw up his hands. "What does a woman need to do, Harry? Rip her clothes off, throw herself on top… — Jim Butcher Dating advice Copy Share Image
“The Queen closed her eye and nodded. She opened it again, and there was a tear tracking down her face. “I tried… — Jim Butcher Queen Copy Share Image
“It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that it was perfectly… — Jim Butcher Cats Copy Share Image
Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on."… — Jim Butcher Annoyance 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 Bad business Copy Share Image
“I leaned into Karrin a little and said, next to her ear, "You ready for this?" "Only a lunatic is ready for… — Jim Butcher Dresden files Copy Share Image
Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves… — Jim Butcher Alive Copy Share Image
And you've got that look on your face again." "I can't help it, "Ehren said. "You're about to walk to breakfast, arn't… — 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 Agnostic Copy Share Image
“This isn’t going to work,” Justine murmured. “It is going to work ,” I told her, keeping my tone confident. “We’ll breeze… — Jim Butcher Dresden files Copy Share Image
“You're just going to stand there?" I asked. Uriel folded his arms and tapped his chin with one fingertip. "Mmmm. It does… — Jim Butcher Dark eyes Copy Share Image
Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night. — Jim Butcher Athena Copy Share Image
“His red hair was buzz cut, and he wore his ill-fitting suit like something that he planned to rip his way out… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Legionares are not afraid of dinner,” Max growled, giving the taurg a dire glare. “Dinner is afraid of legionares.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“The Blue Beetle was not a clown car," I said severely. "It was a machine of justice.” — Jim Butcher Beetle Copy Share Image
“This is bigger than me,” he said finally. “It’s bigger than polka, even. So I guess I’ll help.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received… — Jim Butcher Feminism Copy Share Image
I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them… — Jim Butcher Dresden Copy Share Image
So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain… — Jim Butcher Archangel Copy Share Image
Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive? — Jim Butcher Alive Copy Share Image
“She came back with a can of Coke and a can of Diet Coke, and handed me the nonvile one.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge. — Jim Butcher Fear Copy Share Image
Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I had this teacher who kept telling me that if I was ever in a fair fight, someone had made a mistake,”… — Jim Butcher Education Copy Share Image
A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too. — Jim Butcher Heart Copy Share Image
