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
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
I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I mean it," I said. "You're in danger." "Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in… — 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
I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There are some people who will never understand what loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course, but they… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Karrin smiled faintly and shook her head. "He always said you knew ghosts. You're sure it was really him?" Mort eyed her.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto… — 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