“Nice try?” Butters said. “Mister, where I come from, there is no try.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Those who have such a family seldom realize how rare and precious it is.” — Jim Butcher Family Copy Share Image
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel… — Jim Butcher Dresden Copy Share Image
“Thwart: to prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way. — Jim Butcher Hair Copy Share Image
Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. — Jim Butcher Cold Copy Share Image
“Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.” — Jim Butcher Expectations Copy Share Image
“the border’s been waggling back and forth like a hooker at a dockworker’s convention.” — Jim Butcher Border Copy Share Image
in McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Faith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the… — Jim Butcher Evil Copy Share Image
“Mac folded his arms on the bar and looked at me intently and said, in a resonant baritone, "You've got to be… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“...This is a place of learning where very few learn anything of value. That you, who have courage and intelligence, are held… — Jim Butcher Children Copy Share Image
“Shame, child, is for those who fail to live up to the ideal of what they believe they should be." She waved… — Jim Butcher Children Copy Share Image
“Okay," I said. "I'm going to do something I know you both hate. I'm going to get direct. And I'm going to… — Jim Butcher Dresden files Copy Share Image
“I snorted. “They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?” “Yeah.” “You can stay at home and hide if you… — 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 Art of life Copy Share Image
A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Whatever had killed him, it hadn't been human. His face was gone, simply torn away. Something had ripped his lips off. I… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The door burst open. Murphy came through it, her eyes living flames of azure blue, her hair a golden coronet around her.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place. — Jim Butcher First place Copy Share Image
At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
