Quotes from Jim Butcher

When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better.

Time to start doing," I whispered.

This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears.

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

You okay? Fix asked her. Have to be, she said.

You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep." He

I wanted to kick myself. Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of its idiot.

You may pretend you are like them. But you are not.

What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?

The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault. My

So there are things stacked against us," I said. "What else is new?

If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.

That's how belief works. The worse the situation is, the more a man's belief can do to sustain him. You've given them something to believe in.

Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don't tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders.

It seemed like people could go one of two ways: Either freak out and start rioting, or they actually act like human beings in trouble out to, and look out for one another. When LA blacked out, there had been big time rioting. In New York, people had pulled together.

metaphors can only take you for a short walk on a tight leash.

All you have to do is to hold them until the cops get here, and then you can bleed to death in peace. Or get to a doctor. Whichever hurts less.

White for protection. And because they're the cheapest color at Wal-Mart. Hey, being a wizard doesn't make money grow on trees.

Family complicates everything. Dammit.

Yeah, but I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

I mean, stars and stones. Two million bucks would buy you a lot of ramen.

Because I know my daughter, she said. And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure that she pursues any given course of action is for me to forbid her to do so.

Trite but true—you don't know what you have until it's gone. People change. The world changes. And sooner or later you lose people you care about. If you don't mind some advice from someone who doesn't know much about families, I can tell you this: Don't take yours for granted. It might feel like all of them will always be there. But they won't." She

But a sick feeling had settled into me, as I looked on this darkling house, with all of its stinking lust and fear, all of its horrid hate worn openly upon it to my Sight, like a mantle of flayed human skin on the shoulders of a pretty girl with gorgeous hair, luscious lips, sunken eyes, and rotting teeth. It repulsed me and it made me afraid.