People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you… — 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
Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
in McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear,… — 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
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
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people.… — 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… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness. Then a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the… — 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
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
So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some." Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop." I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair… — 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
