The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“By the time I got home, it was after two o’clock in the morning. The” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter.” — 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
“I can't be under arrest right now,” I said back to him. “I don't have the time.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“So I, uh, sort of threw myself out of the passenger seat of a moving car. Don’t look at me like that.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“A smile fought its way through her expression of pain for a moment, and she said, “Yeah, it really kind of was,… — 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 was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation… — 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
“Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“You need to know where to go," Sanya said. "Yes." "And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance." "Yes,"… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember… — 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
“Well, I never been to much school, you understand, but it seems to me that you're assuming something you shouldn't assume... that… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Come with me if you want to live,” I said. “Excuse me?” “No time,” I said. “It isn’t your fault, but you’re… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Vadderung grinned. “I’ve never heard it phrased quite like that, but it’s accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“This creature serves you?" Sanya asked. "This one and about a hundred smaller ones. And five times that many part-timers I can… — jim butcher Copy Share Image
“I look around me, man . . . I’m trying to do what I’ve always done, to protect people, to keep them safe from the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“One time, when we'd been discussing martial arts, Murphy told me that eventually, no-one can teach you anything more about them. Once… — 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
“Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The First Lord stared at her… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“But… all I said was that I was scared." After what you got to experience? That's smart, kid," I said. "I'm scared,… — 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 last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I… — 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
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
Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Everyone dies, honey," I said, very quietly. "Everyone. There's no 'if.' There's only 'when.'" I let that sink in for a moment.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If… — 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?"… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret… — 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
