“Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“The very best wizards don’t need much more than chalk, table salt, and a wooden spoon to pull off some remarkable stuff.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I might not have any magic available to me, but that didn't make me any less of a wizard, one of the… — 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
“See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Black wizards don't just grow up like toadstools, you know. Someone has to teach them complicated things like summoning demons, ritual magic,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see… — 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
“The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Technically,' I said, "I'm not breaking any of the Laws of Magic. I'm not robbing you of your will, so I'm clear… — 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
Those who deal in magic learn to see the world in a slightly differnt light than everybody else.you gain a perspective you… — 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
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
“Like I said, magic comes from life, and especially from emotions. They're a source of the same intangible energy that everyone can… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I love you." Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmother's spell frayed as though the words had been… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us… — Jim Butcher 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
“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
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
All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Do you really think you can win?' 'Yeah. Hell, Ortega is only the third or fourth most disturbing thing I've tangled with… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Harry waxes poetic about magic. He'll go on and on about how it comes from your feelings, and how it's a deep… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“One ravishing dark-haired beauty wearing leather pants and strategically applied electrical tape, stared hard at me and, when she saw me looking,… — 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
