Jim Butcher Quotes

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• No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the…
• Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else.…
• A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined…
• Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot…
• If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.
• Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're…
• I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a…
• Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I…
• Death is only frightening from the near side.
• Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing…
• Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and…
• I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.
• I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something…
• Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just…
• Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes.…
• As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't…
• I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.
• Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.
• Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he…
• My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him.…

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