I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup. — Jim Butcher 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 Copy Share Image
I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts. — 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
Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened to "Ia, Ia, Cthulu fthtagn"? ... No one has a sense of style anymore -Harry Dresden” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Dresden. Am I interrupting something?" "Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil,… — 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
Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry." I swallowed and bowed… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“She bowed her head and said, "Lord of hosts, please stand with us against this darkness." The quiet, bedrock-deep energy of true… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
So we get a plan," I said. "Any suggestions?" "Blow up the building," Kincaid said without looking up. "That works good for… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“All you can do is try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be- even if it isn't what you… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life." I called power into my blasting rod, and its… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to… — 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
