Quotes from Jim Butcher

You want to play head games? Molly snarled, her blue eyes blazing. Let's go.

I didn't look up, occupied as I was with brooding, a famous pastime of wizards everywhere.

Doesn't matter where you go in the world—if you're good at your job, people who are good enough at theirs to see it will respect you for it.

I... drew out the gun I kept at home, a great big old Dirty Harry Callahan number that weighed about seventy-five thousand pounds.

His voice was like the rest of him - about as exciting as a W-2.

Even days that culminate in a grand battle against an insane ghost and a trip across the border between this world and the spirit realm usually start out pretty normally.

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

Against anything human, more than one round to the head would be overkill: When the merely mortal goes up against the supernatural, there's no such thing as overkill

I blinked slowly at that notion. "A honeymoon free of your mother-in-law." "Worth more than gold or jewels," Hades said.

And the sex," I said. "It will be frequent. Possibly violent. You'll be screaming. Neighbors will make phone calls.

Mouse isn't big. He's compactly challenged.

I listened. Listening isn't hard to do. No one has practice at it, nowadays, but you can train yourself to pay attention to your senses if you work at it long enough.

If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it.

Lightning struck, a hawk cried in fury, and then a goddamned grizzly bear fell out of the night sky and onto Ethniu's head. Don't care how Titanic you are. No one expects an orbital-drop grizzly.

That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse.

Ebenezar blinked . Then he turned his face to me his expression clearly asking whether or not I was out of my damned mind . Wile E. Coyote I said to him soberly . Suuuuuuper Genius

Never walk into a fight when the bad guys are the ones who set it up.

Those who write them do," Ferus said. "They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential nature." He sniffed. "Most untidy, really—but assemble enough scraps and one might have something approaching a whole.

I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.

but all the things Science had promised us hadn't come to pass. Disease was still a problem. Starvation was still a problem. Violence and crime and war were still problems. In spite of the advance of technology, things just hadn't changed the way everyone had hoped and thought they would.

Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up.

I thought I told you I didn't want to talk to you, Mr. Dresden. I like women who play hard to get.

The only thing certain in life is change.

If she were in a race for her life, that roar was the starter pistol. If God were the referee, He had just shouted Go.