Quotes from Jim Butcher

I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.

Fuck a Smurf and call him Gimpy, is that who I think it is?

There was a universe of pain residing in that ellipses.

The man closed his eyes for a moment. Then he whispered, "My little girl was born early yesterday. She's still in the hospital. They couldn't move her." "Well," I said. "That makes it pretty simple. But that's not the same thing as easy, is it.

That's the thing about living behind all that security: If it can keep threats out, it can just as easily keep you in.

Look, people go on and on about how size isn't everything, and how the bigger they are, the harder they fall, but the people who say that probably haven't ever faced down a charging demon-bear so big it should have been on a drive-in movie screen.

Faith, Harry. God has a way of seeing to it that things fall into place.

Wizardry aside, it's tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats.

Maybe, he said in a slow, rural drawl, You could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy. Well, I said. If you're going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn't it.

I hear that they make disinfectants that don't hurt these days. But Charity used iodine.

He didn't mention the other part of the book. That following the heroes when they set out was the tenth member of their party. A broken creature who went through all the same dangers and trials, who had made a single bad choice and taken up a power he didn't understand - and who had become a demented, miserable, living nightmare because of it. In the end, he had been just as necessary to the overthrow of the darkness. But he sure as hell didn't enjoy his part.

but once you put all the stupid things I do aside, I'm really not all that interesting. I like reading, staying home, going on walks with my dog—it's like I'm already a retiree. Who wants to hear about that? Especially when I would have to scream it over the music to which no one dances.

BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.

Do not read what you don't like

Dresden," she said, "I cannot stress to you enough how vital it is that we avoid general hostilities, even with a relatively small power." Translation: Don't start another war, Harry. "But," she continued, "we can afford to lose the paths through Winter even less." Translation: Unless you really have to.

They'd paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. Maybe it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of these gorillas who has learned to paint. The results would have been of similar quality, and they could have paid in fresh produce.

All I said was, "I miss you.

You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.

They're always too strong. There's always more of them, and they're always too strong.

That was silly, to think that they would not love each other—but sometimes humans are slow to figure things out, because they are heart-stupid. You are, too. That's okay. Just get a dog. Dogs can teach you all kinds of things about your heart.

I kind of felt bad for them. Getting punched out by a dame was not going to pad their goon résumés.

You may never know a night's peace again. Knowledge is power, young man. Power to do good and power to do harm. Some knowledge can hurt. Some can kill.

make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is.

Her looks were almost extraneous. They weren't any more important to her appeal than a glass was to wine.