Jim Butcher Quotes

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

~ Jim Butcher

She might be the Archive, but she's still a kid, Kincaid.He frowned and looked at me. So?So? Kids like cute.He blinked at me. Cute?Come on.I led him downstairs.On the lower level of the Oceanarium there's an inner ring of exhibits, too, containing both penguins and--wait for it--sea otters.I mean, come on, sea otters. They open abalone with rocks while floating on their backs.How much cuter does it get than small, fuzzy, floating, playful tool users with big, soft brown eyes?

~ Jim Butcher

BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.

~ Jim Butcher

Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that of his enemies.

~ Jim Butcher

Wait. You work for me?I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

~ Jim Butcher

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

~ Jim Butcher

Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault.

~ Jim Butcher

Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been

~ Jim Butcher

Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real.

~ Jim Butcher

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

~ Jim Butcher

Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary.

~ Jim Butcher

Do you know what I think? Marcone said.You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.Yes.I drew my gun. Okay.

~ Jim Butcher

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

~ Jim Butcher

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

~ Jim Butcher

Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute his mother to pirates.

~ Jim Butcher

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.

~ Jim Butcher

Death is only frightening from the near side.

~ Jim Butcher

...This is a place of learning where very few learn anything of value. That you, who have courage and intelligence, are held in contempt by most of your kind here because you have no sorcery... I have seen you protect others, though they consider you to be weaker than they. I have seen a very few decent people, like the boy we took from the tower. I have seen women trade pleasure for coin to feed their children, and others do the same so that they could ignore their children while making themselves foolish with wines and powders. I have seen men who labor as long as the sun is up go home to wives who hold them in contempt for never being there. I have seen men beat and use those whom they should protect, even their own children. I have seen your kind place others of their own in slavery. I have seen them fighting to be free of the same. I have seen men of the law betray it, men who hate the law be kind. I have seen gentle defenders, sadistic healers, creators of beauty scorned while craftsmen of destruction are worshiped. Your Kind, Aleran, are the most vicious and gentle, most savage and noble, most treacherous and loyal, most terrifying and fascinating creatures I have ever seen.

~ Jim Butcher

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong. He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. And this was wrong.

~ Jim Butcher

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

~ Jim Butcher

Insecurity, thy name is teenager.

~ Jim Butcher

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

~ Jim Butcher

Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--And?And it makes you vulnerable.

~ Jim Butcher

I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym.

~ Jim Butcher

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

~ Jim Butcher

Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear no often enough.

~ Jim Butcher

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

~ Jim Butcher