Quotes from Jim Butcher

See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

My pledge of honor upon it.

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't believe in.

I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.

I looked, noted details mechanically, and quietly shut the door on the part of my head that had started screaming the second I entered the room.

The Queen closed her eye and nodded. She opened it again, and there was a tear tracking down her face. "I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.

I tapped Boz on the shoulder and said, "Hey, gorgeous." His face twisted in complete surprise, turning to stare in blank incomprehension at mine. I winked at him, and whispered, "Boo.

People who ask questions and think about their faith are the last ones to embrace dogma—and the last to abandon their path once they've set out on it. I felt fairly sure that the Almighty, whatever name tag He had on at the moment, could handle a few questions from people sincerely looking for answers.

One day," I told myself, "one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool." I

There are people out there who enjoy hurting and scaring others. They're going to keep doing it until you make them stop.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 452, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

Get out of the way, Mavra. Or don't get out of the way. If you try to stop us from leaving, if you try to hurt anyone under my protection, you'll be dealing with a Wizard of the Council, a Knight of the Sword and a girl with a basket full of garlic and holy water. I don't care how big, bad, and ugly you are, there won't be anything left of you but a greasy spot on the floor.

Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.

The government isn't the mob, Harry. Aren't they? I asked. Pay them money every year to protect you, and God help you if you don't.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight - Gard

Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are.

It was a loss of identity. I was a wizard. It was more than just a job, more than just a title. Wizardry was at the core of my being. It was my relationship with my magic, the way I used it, the things it let me do that defined me, shaped me, gave me purpose. I

Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 451, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

So, ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless? I know it's tempting to think to yourself, "The man can't possibly be that stupid!" But yes. Yes, he can.

There are some basic tenets that ninety-nine percent of all Wiccans follow, but at its core the faith is all about individual freedom. Wiccans believe that as long as you aren't hurting anyone else by doing it, you should be free to act and worship in whatever way you'd like.

Make ready to repel boarders.

Granted, I think it would have been more fun to be Colossus than Shadowcat.

I liked it way better when I could just be openly defiant, rather than being forced to resort to reason.