Quotes from Jim Butcher

When people come to the only professional wizard in the Chicago phone book for help, they're one of two things: desperate or smart. Very rarely are they both.

Once you begin to mass-manufacture anything, by the very nature of the process, you lose the sense of personal attachment you might have to something made by hand.

I tried to take that as a life lesson: never underestimate the little people.

Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures.

Mister went to his spot before the fireplace and demanded that it be made warm.

Try not to look like that, Ascher said under breath, after we were in the elevator. Like what? I asked. Like you're expecting ninjas to leap out of the trash cans. This is a party. Everyone knows there's no such things as ninjas, I scoffed. But it will be something. Count on it.

He's a lawyer, he's a priest. This does not compute. - Harry Dresden

If knowing how clueless I am is the measure of wisdom, I am freaking Solomon, Walter Cronkite, and Judge Judy all rolled into one.

I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. I'm supposed to be the Jedi. - Harry Dresden

Can't you, like, enhance these?" "No," Gary said flatly. "Because I don't have imaginary movie powers.

You have to find solutions where you can, not where convenient.

I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.

She was," Forthill corrected her, "if only for a time. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.

You can use just about anything to make a magic circle, but salt is often the most practical. It's a symbol of the earth and of purity, and it doesn't draw ants. You use sugar to make a circle on the carpet only once. Let me tell you.

I longed for my bed. I longed for sleep.

Mathematically, maybe," I said. "But trust isn't one of those things that lends itself well to math." "Sure it does," Bob said. "You trust somebody, they betray you, you get a negative value. You never trust, they can never disappoint you, you break even.

to whom much is given, much is required.

None of us had known the layout to Marcone's place, so we'd chosen to approach from the rear, on general principles of sneakiness.

It's dark, close, cold, and intensely creepy down there. The fact that it was inhabited by things that had no love for mankind and potential radioactivity to boot didn't do much to boost its tourism industry.

Scars - the graffiti of violence. - Harry Dresden

Beer, brewed in cauldrons the size of houses by machines and then served cold. It has no soul. It isn't worthy of the name.

concentrate on what you will do, not what you should have done.

So many terrible things are done for love," Mab's voice said. "For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, and that right willingly.

I used to think I loved it. But now I realize that it's just dependency.