My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Tonight you will be visited by three spirits. The ghosts of indictment past, present, and future. They will teach you the true… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Money is a madness, a delusion-illusion. It’s not made of metal, really. It’s made of time. How much is one’s time worth?… — 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
“Who am I? What have I done with my life? Who can I trust? That last one is a doozy. It haunts… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“You aren’t angry,” he said. “That she’s hurt.” “Like hell I’m not,” I said. “It’s coming. After we take care of her.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I’m a pessimist of the human condition, as a rule, but contemplating the future and how the Carpenter kids could contribute to… — 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
“I stared at MacFinn for a long moment. I believed that he was telling me the truth. That he didn’t have much… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Injun Joe studied the body for a moment, his eyes sad. Then he said, "I'd rather go in my sleep, I think."… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect. A hundred million things had… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I... briefly wondered why I kept running into repeat uses of various locations around town. This wasn't the first time I'd dealt… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade… — 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