Jim Butcher Quotes

I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

~ Jim Butcher

Sleep is God. Go worship.

~ Jim Butcher

Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

~ Jim Butcher

What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?

~ Jim Butcher

Why?” I asked him tiredly. “What would it have changed? What could you possibly have said that would have made a difference?”“That I was your brother, Harry,” he said. “That I loved you. That I knew a few things about denying the dark parts of your nature. And that we would get through it.” He put his elblows on his knees and rested his forehead on his hands. “That we’d figure it out. That you weren’t alone.” Stab.Twist.He was right. It was just that simple.

~ Jim Butcher

Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.

~ Jim Butcher

It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .

~ Jim Butcher

There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrugged. 'It's worthwhile to me.

~ Jim Butcher

There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

~ Jim Butcher

Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore.Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, Eek.

~ Jim Butcher

Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.” “Well,” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.

~ Jim Butcher

That's Doctor Smart-ass. I didn't spend eight years in insult college to be called Mister.

~ Jim Butcher

With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.

~ Jim Butcher

Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan far below. Yes, I was using a legendary and enchanted means of travel to transcend the border between one dimension and the next, and on my way to an epic struggle between ancient and elemental forces.But all i could think to say, between panting breaths, was, Yeah. Sure. They couldn't possibly have made this an escalator.

~ Jim Butcher

Isana laughed. And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?The lady smiled. That's a question rarely asked here at court.And why is that?Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.

~ Jim Butcher

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

~ Jim Butcher

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

~ Jim Butcher

Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time.

~ Jim Butcher

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

~ Jim Butcher

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

~ Jim Butcher

If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

~ Jim Butcher

Being called dangerous by a cat could mean a great many things, but it was generally delivered as something of a compliment.

~ Jim Butcher

It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that it was perfectly acceptable to teach kits to accept food from their hands as a matter of course, rather than teaching them the importance of hunting skill and self-reliance.

~ Jim Butcher

Rowl felt sure that Bridget's fragile feelings would be crushed if he denied her the pleasure of sharing her meat with him.

~ Jim Butcher

He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.

~ Jim Butcher

When a single cat let loose a war cry, it was an unsettling sound. When two cats suddenly wailed at each other in a similar fashion, it was downright unne

~ Jim Butcher

He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore.

~ Jim Butcher

Littlemouse was in danger, doubtless a prisoner, and the humans could not be trusted to handle her rescue with appropriate violence. They might be willing to leave someone alive, and Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained.

~ Jim Butcher

...after a pointless delay for the humans to collect all their toys and keepsakes, he was able to take his rightful place in Littlemouse's arms and heard them all in the proper direction.

~ Jim Butcher

Mister didn't come with me on cases, being above such trivial matters, but he found me pleasant company when I was at home and not moving around too much, except when he didn't, in which case he went rambling

~ Jim Butcher

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

~ Jim Butcher

And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago?

~ Jim Butcher

There is no spoon.

~ Jim Butcher

Dresden’s not gone,” I said. I touched a hand lightly to my brow. “He’s here.” I touched Will’s bare chest, on the left side. “Here. Without him, without what he’s done over the years, you and I would never have been able to pull this off.”“No,” he agreed. “Probably not. Definitely not.”“There are a lot of people he’s taught. Trained. Defended. And he’s been an example. No single one of us can ever be what he was. But together, maybe we can.

~ Jim Butcher

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

~ Jim Butcher

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

~ Jim Butcher

Raith smiled. There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You were made to feel desire. I was made to use it against you. It is the natural cycle. Life and death. Mating and death. Predator and Prey.Raith leaned closer with each word, and brushed his lips against Murphy's throat as he spoke. Born mortal. Born weak. And easily taken....And that's only a taste, child. When you know what it is to be truly taken later this night, you will understand that your life ended the moment I wanted you.

~ Jim Butcher

At one time in my life, a shapeshifted, demonically possessed maniac crashing through a window and trying to rip my face off would have come as an enormous and nasty surprise.But that time was pretty much in the past.

~ Jim Butcher

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

~ Jim Butcher

Please, help me. Young werewolves in love. I turned to walk into the house, moving carefully.I had never much believed in God. Well, that's not quite true. I believed that there was a God, or something close enough to it to warrant the name if there were demons, there had to be angels, right? If there was a Devil, somewhere, there had to be a God. But He & I had never really seen things in quite the same terms.All the same. I flashed a look up at the ceiling. I didn't say or think any words, but if God was listening, I hoped he got the message nonetheless. I didn't want of these children getting themselves killed.

~ Jim Butcher