Jim Butcher Quotes

“EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED—THEY FOUND THE BODY”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear....”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they're working in His best interests. Faeries and vampires and whatnot -- those I can fathom. Even demons. Sometimes, even the Fallen. I can understand why they do what they do. But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea”
― Jim Butcher

“Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop."
I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead."
The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, "I don't understand."
I answered, "I don't either."
A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood.
Then she died.”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

“Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.”
― Jim Butcher, Princeps' Fury

“Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.”
― Harry Dresden

“One ravishing dark-haired beauty wearing leather pants and strategically applied electrical tape, stared hard at me and, when she saw me looking, licked her lips very, very slowly. She trailed a fingertip over her chin, down across her throat, and down over her sternum and gave me a smile so wicked that it's parents should have sent it to military school.”
― Jim Butcher, Skin Game

“You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If so, then face them and overcome them. Until then, pay them no mind. You have enough to think on.”
― Jim Butcher, Cursor's Fury

“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, Summer Knight

“Empty knight, Harry! Morgan? Morgan? What's wrong with your head?" Thomas shrugged.

"I don't think he did it."

Morgan wouldn't cross the street to piss on you if you were on fire!" Thomas growled, "He's finally getting his comeuppance. Why should you lift a finger?”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“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, Small Favor

“It's only paranoia if I'm wrong. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“And here I thought global warming was due to cow farts. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

“You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap. - Thomas Raith”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“It’s boring.”
“Oh,” I said. I rubbed at my jaw. “You think I should have gone four-color?”
Bob stared at me for a second and said, “I have nightmares about Hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.”
I glowered up at the skull and nodded. “Okay, fine. You think it needs more drama.”
“More anything. Drama would do. Or breasts.”
I sighed and saw where that line of thought was going. “I am not going to hire a leggy secretary, Bob. Get over it.”
“I didn’t say anything about legs. But as long as we’re on the subject . . .”
― Jim Butcher, Side Jobs

“He's a lawyer, he's a priest. This does not compute. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“I'd done a bit of research on fun things you can fire out of a shotgun, and as it turns out, there's all kinds of interesting stuff you can shoot at people. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. I'm supposed to be the Jedi. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“Scars - the graffiti of violence. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“Harry Dresden Taxidermy. If you snuff it, we'll stuff it.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“Tengo lo que puede considerarse una actitud muy anticuada y chovinista hacia las mujeres. Me gusta tratarlas como señoras: abrirles la puerta, invitarlas a cenar cuando tenemos una cita, llevarles flores, retirarles el asiento y todo eso. Si tuviese una mejor opinión de mí mismo, lo llamaría caballerosidad.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“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, Blood Rites

“It's a big universe. No one can know it all. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“What does a woman need to do, Harry? Rip her clothes off, throw herself on top of you, and shimmy while screaming "Do me, baby!"? - Thomas Raith”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“Birthdays are about families. Whether they're a biological family or one that's come together by choice, it's your family who gathers to celebrate the anniversary of *you*.”
― Jim Butcher, Side Jobs

“Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“It’s not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They’re basically huge vibrators. With wheels. - Harry Dresden”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“The mailman walked towards my office door, half an hour earlier than usual. He didn’t sound right. His footsteps fell more heavily, jauntily, and he whistled. A new guy. He whistled his way to my office door and then fell silent for a moment. Then he laughed.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front