Quotes from Jim Butcher

Run away. Me and Monty Python.

I looked past him to the snack table. It was indeed piled with doughnuts of a number of varieties. Some of them even had sprinkles. My mouth started a quick impression of a minor tributary. But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness . . . . . . which could obviously be redeemed only by passing through the fiery, cleansing inferno of a wizardly digestive tract.

Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move it from an indefensible point and to attack the opponent. ~ Lord Aquitainus Attis ~ Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher

Death is only frightening from the near side.

Worry is fear in disguise.

I try to make thinking an ongoing process.

An old hatred. The hardest kind to resist.

Harry Dresden—I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day.

As long as we're going, we might as well go out in style.

There was a low growling sound and the Munstermobile came gliding up out of the parking garage, dripping water from its gleaming surface like some lantern-eyed leviathan rising from the depths. There were still a few dents and dings in it, but the broken glass had all been replaced, and the engine sounded fine. Okay, I'm not like a car fanatic or anything - but the guitar riff from Bad to the Bone started playing in my head.

What do you do to make up for failing everyone in your life? How do you make it right? How do you apologize for hideous things you never intended to happen?

Do you feel you should walk the same path because so many have walked it before you came

You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves.

Then she turned her head and, before I could react, planted a kiss right on my mouth. I almost fell off the Harley. She drew her head back, flashed me a wicked little smile, and said, "For luck. Star Wars–style." "You are so hot right now," I told her.

You aren't explaining it very well." "Maybe," I said. "Or maybe you aren't learning it very well.

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.

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

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did. That was, he supposed, human nature.

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

We all have our demons.

I'm afraid it isn't good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad.

You have enemies enough without tearing open your own wounds over things you could not have prevented.

And here I thought global warming was due to cow farts. - Harry Dresden

There was no milk in the icebox, and I wasn't pouring Coke onto breakfast cereal. That would just be odd.