“You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.” — Jim Butcher Book Copy Share Image
“I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore.” — Jim Butcher Backpacking Copy Share Image
Tavi grinned. "Are you with me?" "The plan is insane," Ehren said. "YOU are insane." He looked around the inside of the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought. — Jim Butcher Bible Copy Share Image
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“They're always too strong. There's always more of them, and they're always too strong.” — Jim Butcher Strength Copy Share Image
Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people… — Jim Butcher Acting 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 Apocalypse Copy Share Image
I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“You can’t beat the Fair Folk as housekeepers. You also can’t tell people about them, because they’ll pack up and clear out.… — Jim Butcher Faeries Copy Share Image
“But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness . . . . . . which could obviously be redeemed only… — Jim Butcher Darkness Copy Share Image
If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Why?" I demanded of her. "Why bring the child into this? Why not just come straight to me?" "Does it matter at… — Jim Butcher Children Copy Share Image
“Da. This is going very well already." Thomas barked out a laugh. "There are seven of us against the Red King and… — Jim Butcher Friendship Copy Share Image
“Hey," He croaked. "You. Arrogant bitch ghost." "I'm not really into this whole hero thing," Mort said. "Don't have the temperament for… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“They don't make morgues with windows. In fact, if the geography allows for it, they hardly ever make morgues above the ground.… — Jim Butcher Death 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
“He died in his sleep one night. An aneurysm, the doctors said. I found him, cold, smiling. Maybe he’d been dreaming of… — Jim Butcher Dreaming Copy Share Image
“There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect. A hundred million things had… — Jim Butcher Imagination Copy Share Image
“I know you've been aching to have your hands on my staff," I said to Ascher, as Nicodemus examined the altar for… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face. — Jim Butcher Demon Copy Share Image
Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.” “You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked. “What is that?”… — Jim Butcher Brides Copy Share Image
“I will not live in a realm where calculations of power supersede justice and law - regardless of how inconvenient that may… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored.” — Jim Butcher Bored Copy Share Image
“You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.” — Jim Butcher Clever girl Copy Share Image
Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor. — Jim Butcher Conscience Copy Share Image
“I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn’t good… — Jim Butcher Business Copy Share Image
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny? — Jim Butcher Choices Copy Share Image
“I hadn't gotten beaten up twice, shot, and nearly strangled to get taken out by a misguided werewolf bitch.” — Jim Butcher Werewolf Copy Share Image
“..it would be a real pity to die when I’d finally put tabs on who had gotten me into this mess—” — Jim Butcher Pity Copy Share Image
“Patiently, more gentle than rain, she made me clean, while I drifted, my eyes closed.” — Jim Butcher Gentle Copy Share Image
Pansy," Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging… — Jim Butcher Bad thoughts Copy Share Image
Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate. — Jim Butcher Boyish Copy Share Image
“It isn't complicated. You just open up and let someone in. And whatever comes after that, you face it together.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have… — Jim Butcher Before i die Copy Share Image