Quotes from Jim Butcher

It's what you do with the want that matters.

Do you want to be my dad?

Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time.

Cell phones were like those security guys in red shirts on old Star Trek: as soon as something started happening, they were always the first to go.

Money is a madness, a delusion-illusion. It's not made of metal, really. It's made of time. How much is one's time worth? If one can convince enough people that one's time is an invaluable resource, then one has lots and lots of money.

My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.

Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic.

I like her," Sanya rumbled in his deep, half-swallowed accent. "She is so tiny and fierce. I don't suppose she knows how to—" "Sanya," Michael said, his voice very firm. "We have talked about this." The dark-skinned Russian sighed and shrugged. "It could not hurt to ask." "Sanya." He lifted both hands in a gesture of surrender, grinning, and fell silent. The

He had no frame of reference, and couldn't read—most faeries were studiously averse to print.

rocket launcher like it was a coat. Karrin let him, giving him an edged smile that she directed past him, to the shadows where the Genoskwa lurked. "I didn't kill the accountant," she said quietly. "Nicodemus said not to." That surprised me a little. If she wanted to hide herself from me, she didn't need to go to the effort of lying. All she had to do was stay silent. "He said that to all of us," I said.

Death is certain, Aleran—for all of us. That being true, we know that all of those we love will either be torn away from us, or we will be torn away from them. It follows as naturally as the night after sundown.

You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

What does a woman need to do, Harry? Rip her clothes off, throw herself on top of you, and shimmy while screaming Do me, baby!? - Thomas Raith

The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold.

Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic, and they don't need a special effects budget to do it, either.

Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

Ah, yes, a savage. Of the famous Chromotonsorial Cahokian Goth tribe.

We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.

You need to know where to go," Sanya said. "Yes." "And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance." "Yes," I said. The

MURPHY'S SATURN HAD gotten a little blown up a couple of years back

with an intensity that sent every instinct in my body screaming that death was here, that it was about to jump down my throat and rip me inside out.

No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you.

I nodded and sipped my own. Wow. Mac's beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy.