Quotes from Jim Butcher

I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.

Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that of his enemies.

In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game.

And for a time, there was nothing else to be done. I wept. And the city burned.

And may the crows feast on the unjust.

I'd been feeling sorry for myself, which is about the most use- less thing you can feel: it doesn't do a damned thing for you. You don't feel any better, you don't get any better, and you're too busy moping to do anything to actually make your life any better.

Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word.

If he stayed close enough to Maggie for long enough, the dog might wind up with more education than me. Then there'd be no talking to him.

Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire.

Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy.

If at first you don't succeed," Bob said cheerfully, "you probably needed a better plan to begin with.

I put it down on the floor of the limo and said firmly, "I don't do hats.

several bulging bookshelves which I really will organize one day.

Surely, that is merely a colorful euphemism, rather than a statement of desire.

Deserve's got nothin'—

The difference is, anything we just make out of our will, they can slip most of the punch," he said. "I ain't got time to give you a graduate seminar on intention versus the natural operation of the universe until you've completed my 'why it's a damned stupid thing to trust vampires' course.

Like 'love,' 'hope' is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer. (Harry Dresden - Turn Coat)

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different. Magic

growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee.

Call me paranoid, but there's nothing like a murder attempt in broad daylight to make a man cautious.

Kincaid?" the girl asked, her voice whimsical. "Can you be trusted?" "You're paid up through April," the man replied, his eyes still scanning the street. "After that I might get a better offer." "There," the girl said to me. "Kincaid can be trusted until April. He's an ethical man, in his way.

It's a big universe. No one can know it all. - Harry Dresden

I'm not exactly a useless cream puff.

Internet, she said sagely. Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.