Quotes from Jim Butcher

You are the only man I ever met," Tera growled, "who would smash the paws that are trying to free you from certain death.

If you let Murphy get hurt, I'll kill you." "Kid, if anything happens to Murphy because of me . . ." I sighed. "I think I'll let you.

Her chin lifted, and her hard, cold eyes flickered in naked, unconcealed pride. "Never once in your life, my Knight, have you taken the easy road. I chose well.

You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep.

a captain should know the details of every position in his ship's company by working them with his own hands, stem to stern. It's the only way to be sure you know what each man needs from his captain in order to be able to perform his duty.

You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.

Junkies are happy when they're high," I said quietly, "but they don't need to be happy. They need to be free.

They're just itching for me to lead them in some meaningful crusade against evil. Hell, I have trouble just paying the bills.

What can I say? I put the 'ick' in 'magic.

It's a tradition," Grimm said. "Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures.

defenestration

It is one thing for you to say, 'Let the world burn.' It is another to say, 'Let Molly burn.' The difference is all in the name.

You can't," Grimm said simply. "You've seen the mistmaw. They haven't.

It wasn't hot yet. That's why I was up at oh-God-thirty.

Everyone cares about everyone else, so when you get mad and say something horrible, it hurts that much more. And too many things go unsaid. That's the worst, I think. Everyone thinks they know one another better than they probably do, so you fill in the silences with things the other person never actually said. Or thought. Or thought about saying.

Blood was their art. Screams were their music. Horror was their faith.

My teacher told me something once," I heard myself say in a quiet voice. "That the hardest lesson in life is learning when to do nothing. To learn to let go.

If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.

You don't help people sand off any rough edges by telling them how much they suck. I'd hadn't always been so different from the kid.

Harry Bob muttered at me, Stop trying to piss it off!

If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would speak even more loudly about clearly of her life.

Hope lets you do things you would otherwise never be able to do, gives strength when everything is darkest.

Padawan," I said, "I'm doubling your pay." "You don't pay me, Harry." "Tripling it, then.

It's a study in deliberate asymmetry.