You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“ When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your… — 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
“Magic came from life itself, from the interaction of nature and the elements, from the energy of all living beings, and especially… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Like life is short,” he said. “Like you don’t know when it’s going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can’t ever… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“If she were in a race for her life, that roar was the starter pistol. If God were the referee, He had… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your… — Jim Butcher 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
Souls, I said. I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder:… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would… — 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
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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I just wouldn’t be safe from myself. I wouldn’t be safe from the loathing I would feel, using a tool made of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“My father had died when I was young, before I learned that there was anything stronger than he was. I'd been operating… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Shiro died. There was nothing pretty about it. There was no dignity to it. He'd been brutalized and savagely murdered - and… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Everyone is down on pain, because they forget one important thing about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s part of the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“This is what is going to happen, Aleran. You will no longer lie with me. You will treat me in exactly the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.” — jim butcher Copy Share Image
“It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“The world might be vicious and treacherous and deadly, but it couldn’t kill laughter. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“And then I heard the most beautiful sound of my life. Somewhere nearby, a cat let out an angry, hissing scream.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the… — 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
“Who am I? What have I done with my life? Who can I trust? That last one is a doozy. It haunts… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the… — 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
