Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“For a second, I wanted very badly to know a spell that would let me melt through the floor in a quivering… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire. — Jim Butcher 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 Copy Share Image
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course. — Jim Butcher 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'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
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 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
... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“She looked up at me with a polite smile, her dark hair long and appealing...I liked the smile. Maybe I didn't look… — 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
Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical… — Jim Butcher 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 Copy Share Image
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Anyway, my office is small - one room, but on the corner, with a couple of windows. The sign on the door… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Please, help me. Young werewolves in love. I turned to walk into the house, moving carefully. I had never much believed in… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Dresden’s not gone,” I said. I touched a hand lightly to my brow. “He’s here.” I touched Will’s bare chest, on the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“You're going to have to take care of yourself," Karrin said quietly. "Over the next few weeks. Rest. Give yourself a chance… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Not everyone can be equally right, Harry.” “But believe you me, everyone can be equally wrong,” I said.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image