Quotes from Jim Butcher

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you

You can be such an asshole, Dresden, I swear.

When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.

Nipple erection on command—now that's method acting. Oh

You now have more work. Cease your whining, desist from your dalliances, and do your duty.

Harry Dresden Taxidermy. If you snuff it, we'll stuff it.

Three blind men were shown an elephant. They touched it with their hands to determine what the creature was. The first man felt the trunk, and claimed that an elephant was like a snake. The second man touched its leg and claimed that an elephant was like a tree. The third man touched its tail, and claimed that the elephant was like a slender rope." I

Bernard had become, not so much important to her as he was natural to her whole being. He was as much a part of her thoughts as breath, food, and sleep. At once present and not present, conspicuous with his absence and filling her with a sense of completion when he was there.

You're with me today. I need someone to watch my back. Maybe to help me eat a hot dog later.

I know you haven't burned down any buildings in a while, she said, but if you start feeling the need...

If I'd realized how rabid he was to catch me slipping, I wouldn't have added more fuel to his fire by hitting him in the mouth. Okay. I probably still would have hit him in the mouth. But I wouldn't have done it quite so hard.

I put the ic in Magic

More trouble in Faerie. Bigger trouble in Faerie. And I'd be willing to bet dollars to navel lint that I knew exactly which stupid son of a bitch the Council would expect to start poking his nose around in it.

patterns of cloth busier than the makeup girl at a Kiss concert

Writing writhed across the surface of the stone, runes that looked a little familiar. Norse, maybe? Some of them looked more like Egyptian. They seemed to take something from several different sources, leaving them unreadable.

We just have to have faith. The good Lord wouldn't give us more than we could bear.

They get caught up in right and wrong. Or right and left. But none of that stuff matters if people aren't free." Titania

Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away. My

Better to have the magical arsenal and not need it, than to not have it and get killed to death. I

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed.

We didn't charge into the fray so much as aggressively shamble.

See, that's the tragedy of the human condition. No one wants to be corrupted by power when they set out to get it. They have good, even noble reasons for doing whatever it is they do. They don't want to misuse it, they don't want to abuse it, and they don't want to become vicious monsters. Good people, decent people, set out to take the high road, to pick up power without letting it

And sometimes you are what's coming around.