Quotes from Jim Butcher

Vadderung grinned. "I've never heard it phrased quite like that, but it's accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it's a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future.

The very sound of Creation still echoes throughout the vast darkness: The universe remembers.

Whatever," I said. "It's getting cloying in here. Are we there yet?" He smiled. "Jerk." "Wuss." "Jackass." "Pansy." "Philistine." "Dandysprat." "Butthead." "Whiner …

I'm afraid you made a serious mistake today. Sire? You proved yourself extraordinarily capable, Captain, Albion said. I can hardly let something like that go unremarked. I don't understand, sir, Grimm said, frowning. Captain, your clarity of thought in the face of unexpected disaster is a rare quality. It's a poor reward for such heroism, but I'm afraid that I must insist upon continuing to use you for the good of my Spire.

I'd fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.

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He's a rather brilliant defensive tactician," Grimm said. "I agree," Bayard said. "The problem is that he's an inept defensive strategist.

Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love.

When the Almighty speaks to men, He always does it in voices they can understand

I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish.

I think men who lust for power are capable of almost anything.

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

My own aches and bruises and cuts and wounds pained me, but it was an honest, stretchy pain, something that was healing.

Octokongs," I pronounced grimly. "Why did it have to be octokongs?

The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight—not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable.

Stop learning, start dying

Never again. Tell them that. Never again. Or Hell itself will not hide you from me.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. Crane

But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient.

Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary.

Fight like a woman, my ass," Murphy muttered darkly

More than anything, I wanted to crawl into a hole and pull it in after me. I wanted to be not.

With your head, the wall breaks first.

Coz, he said. You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter.