Mean Quotes by Jim Butcher

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

— Jim Butcher

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek…

— Jim Butcher

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

— Jim Butcher

I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.

— Jim Butcher

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

— Jim Butcher

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

— Jim Butcher

No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

— Jim Butcher

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

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

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

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I…

— Jim Butcher

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

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

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

There are some people who will never understand what loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course, but they…

— Jim Butcher

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

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

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

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

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

Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

— Jim Butcher

Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by…

— Jim Butcher

...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in…

— Jim Butcher