Quotes from Jim Butcher

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead, I said solemnly, and frosting of white.

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family. And they were my heroes.

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do

Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

She frowned at me. You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles. Wizards don't giggle, I said, hardly able to speak. This is cackling.

Harry, Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, what you know about women, I could juggle.

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices that they would call 'hard but necessary steps' for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?

I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden. He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. 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. He nodded slowly. I think I like you.