“Dude," I said, making the word a disgusted sound. "Single guys everywhere hate you. Starting with me.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure. — Jim Butcher Dresden Copy Share Image
If I need you I'll give you a signal.' What signal?" I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl — Jim Butcher Girl Copy Share Image
“The venom," she [Susan] said quietly. "They call it their Kiss." "I guess I can't blame them. It sounds a lot more… — Jim Butcher Kiss Copy Share Image
Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you? — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.” — Jim Butcher Bravery Copy Share Image
Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. — Jim Butcher Emotion Copy Share Image
All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight. — Jim Butcher Dresden Copy Share Image
“It’s like a knife wound, but bigger.” “That’s probably because it was done with something like a knife, but bigger.” “A sword?… — Jim Butcher Harry dresden Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from… — 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
“The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I… — Jim Butcher Battle cry Copy Share Image
Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would… — Jim Butcher Art of living 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 Books Copy Share Image
“They were huge, six feet long not including the tail, and as high as my belly at their shoulders. Their entirely human… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“One ravishing dark-haired beauty wearing leather pants and strategically applied electrical tape, stared hard at me and, when she saw me looking,… — Jim Butcher Beauty Copy Share Image
“If the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all… — Jim Butcher Idle time Copy Share Image
Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped over to the car.… — 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 Hope 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
“Christ, Harry,” Murphy said quietly. “No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“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… — Jim Butcher Anger Copy Share Image
“Listen to me,” I snarled. “We are not going to die!” Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. “We’re not?”… — Jim Butcher Born to die Copy Share Image
Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. — Jim Butcher Computer Copy Share Image
“- Did you really save the world ?... - Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was… — Jim Butcher Humor Copy Share Image
You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now? — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“[Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“The soreness lifted out of my muscles, and my cloudy, cloggy thought processes cleared as though someone had flushed my synapses with… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do. — Jim Butcher Friend Copy Share Image
You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next… — Jim Butcher Bears Copy Share Image
“My dear cousin has a very odd relationship with fear -- though mostly she's too busy to be bothered with it.” — Jim Butcher Fear Copy Share Image
You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table. — Jim Butcher Beer Copy Share Image
In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you get what's coming around. And sometimes, you are what's coming around.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“. . . every jungle creature for fifty or sixty yards started raising holy hell on the what-the-fuck-was-that party line.” — Jim Butcher Humor Copy Share Image
“All you can do is try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be- even if it isn't what you… — Jim Butcher Dresden Copy Share Image
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more… — Jim Butcher Action Copy Share Image