Quotes from Jim Butcher

Everyone else who lets me ride on their dinosaur calls me Carlos.

Pussy," Murphy said. I blinked at her. She smirked. "Too good, couldn't resist.

Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion.

I want five minutes alone with Dresden." "No offense, Nick," I said, "but that's about five minutes longer than I want to spend with you.

Just once," I growled, "I'd like to save the goddamned day without a shot clock. You know?

but one of them had rolled a higher initiative this round

But the fact is that the human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality.

Man sees faces. Sees skin. Flags. Membership lists. Files." He took another large bite, ate it, and said, "God sees hearts.

It is the nature of the universe that things remain. Nothing ever disappears completely. The very sound of Creation still echoes throughout the vast darkness: The universe remembers

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Maybe it'll be a nice dinner, and everyone will sing 'Kumbaya' together.

just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

But, as it turned out, hell got up awfully early in the morning.

Oh wow!" Maggie exclaimed. "Santa's real! And he left me a bike!

Can't just tell a soul it is free, Tavar. Freedom must be done for oneself. Important that the slaves created their own freedom.

Not like those Dungeons and Dragons games. The real thing. He bought some of those tarot cards." She pronounced it like carrot. Amateurs.

This block had seen the apocalypse come, grunted, and said, "Meh.

Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute his mother to pirates.

Home is where you embrace the present and plan the future. It's where the books are. And more than anything else, it's where you build that world that you want.

Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.

But something deep down inside me stirred, like an old warhorse who hears the sound of trumpets

There was no sense in brooding over it. Life never stays the same. There's always some kind of curveball coming at you. Nothing to do but swing away.

Mab did not descend from her high seat so much as reality itself seemed to take a polite step to one side.

gave me a smile so wicked that its parents should have sent it to military school.