Quotes from Jim Butcher

From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before.

Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed." Araris

Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine.

I'm not saying pain is what defines us as human beings. But it is, in many ways, what unites us.

I'll give the rat his due—he's got balls that drag the ground when he walks.

You wish answers? Yes. How can you expect to get them, when you do not yet know the proper questions?

I'll talk you through, Kincaid said. Dresden, better take her gun and cover us. Hey, I said. I'm in charge here. Kincaid, talk her through it. Murphy, give me your gun so I can cover you.

What is the absolute worst place in this Valley one could go? The most insanely suicidal place to be found? The place where only a great fool would venture—and only an insane fool would follow?

Vampires on a diet?' Susan murmured beneath her breath. 'Yeah,' I said back, sotto voce. 'Make hers a Blood Lite.

The words never again mean more to some people than others.

Ah. Destiny is a . . . stone-cold bitch.

I know. It makes my head hurt too.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence

There had to be something I could do. Had to be. There had to be.

I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language.

So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.

It's easy to do the right thing when it doesn't cost you. Not as easy to do the right thing when your back is to the wall." Fitz

Tengo lo que puede considerarse una actitud muy anticuada y chovinista hacia las mujeres. Me gusta tratarlas como señoras: abrirles la puerta, invitarlas a cenar cuando tenemos una cita, llevarles flores, retirarles el asiento y todo eso. Si tuviese una mejor opinión de mí mismo, lo llamaría caballerosidad.

Only the young think being called old is an insult

I hate dreams like this," I said. "There's no plot—just random weird things happening. I get enough of that when I'm awake.

So once again, let me be perfectly clear. If anything happens to Murphy and I even *think* you had a hand in it, fuck right and wrong. If you touch her, I'm declaring war on you.

They say civilization is a thin veneer over barbarism. Chicago stood waiting for the first tearing sound.

Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.

I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall.