I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh. — Jim Butcher Brilliance Copy Share Image
“Me and the Blue Beetle kick ass. In a four-cylinder kind of way, but it still gets kicked.” — Jim Butcher Beetle Copy Share Image
“Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?" "Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead, I said solemnly, and frosting of white.” — Jim Butcher Food Copy Share Image
“See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.” — Jim Butcher Grudge Copy Share Image
“In Chicago, you can’t swing a cat without hitting an Irish pub (and angering the cat), but McAnally’s place stands out from… — Jim Butcher Chicago Copy Share Image
People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it. — Jim Butcher People Copy Share Image
“Beer, brewed in cauldrons the size of houses by machines and then served cold. It has no soul. It isn't worthy of… — Jim Butcher Beer Copy Share Image
“Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them.” — Jim Butcher Ambition Copy Share Image
“It never rains,” I moaned. Tera frowned at me. “It is raining now.” She turned to Susan. “I do not think he… — Jim Butcher Communication Copy Share Image
but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the… — Jim Butcher Children Copy Share Image
I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge… — 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 Apocalypse Copy Share Image
Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying,… — 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
“The world always thinks that the destruction of a physical vessel is victory,” he said quietly. “But the Savior was more than… — Jim Butcher Savior Copy Share Image
“I glanced up at Thomas. "We've still got Hook, right?" "He's being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven,"… — Jim Butcher Art making Copy Share Image
“I poke at my skull with a finger. It didn't feel soft or anything. I didn't feel insane. But if you'd really… — Jim Butcher Crazy people Copy Share Image
“People who ask questions and think about their faith are the last ones to embrace dogma -- and the last to abandon… — 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 Angry Copy Share Image
“I love you." Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmother's spell frayed as though the words had been… — Jim Butcher Harry dresden 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 Doubt Copy Share Image
“Whatever had killed him, it hadn't been human. His face was gone, simply torn away. Something had ripped his lips off. I… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The door burst open. Murphy came through it, her eyes living flames of azure blue, her hair a golden coronet around her.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image