Quotes from Jim Butcher

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future. Why did I want this fight so badly?

I choose to exercise my status as an apex predator. And I laugh in the face of cholesterol.

Steady as she goes, Mister Kettle," the grim gaptain said, his voice stern.

Oh, crap. You're saying that it's going to kill me, too." "Yes, that is exactly what I'm freaking saying, you tool." "Um," Thomas said, "I'm against that.

Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

By the time I got home, it was after two o'clock in the morning. The

I would beat you to crap if you didn't already look like it

Bob's knowledge and skills had let me save lives. Mostly my own, maybe, but a lot of other lives, too.

And if you should fall to temptation. If you should embrace the Fallen or become ensnared by its will... He touched the hilt of the great sword, and his face became bedrock granite, Old Testament determination that made Morgans fanaticism look like a wisp of steam. If you change, I will also be there.

There is but one reality, that is true -- but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster.

Murphy grabbed a gym bag out of her car and then followed me to Ebenezar's truck. She stopped about twenty feet short of it and said, You're kidding me. Come on, I said. You want to show up where there might be some trouble in your own car? That'd be nice for responding emergency units to see. So get in. What does it run on, coal? Ebenezar stuck his bald head out of the window, scowling. No idea. Mostly I just turn it loose to hunt down dinner for itself.

I suddenly felt a bit more humble. It was probably good for me.

God knows all things at all times. By His very nature, his omniscience enables Him to know what has happened, is happening, and will happen. Though we might not be able to see His reasons, or to agree with them from our perspectives, they are yet there.

time for anything subtle. Lucky for

Life's easier when you can write off others as monsters, as demons, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared. The thing is, you can't do that without becoming them, just a little. Sure

and scanned the darkness, but saw nothing. "Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated," I said.

I've never met a place I couldn't blow up, burn down, or knock over with enough motivation

Esmerelda's blue and green eyes could have made Stevie remember being hired by Mister Snuffleupagus, if that was what she wanted.

in a counterclockwise direction, also known as widdershins

What I believe doesn't matter, Mr. Dresden. What is important is that a lot of the scum out there believe in it. It affects the way they think and operate. If I could make use of your advice to solve this case, I would, the same as any other law officer.

It was that last phrase that did it. It hit me like a bucket of cold water. Maggie.

Grenade!" I screamed, and sent more power into the shield. A second later, there was a sound you could chew, it was so thick, and a wash of power smashed against my shield, overloading what the bracelet could handle and scorching my wrist.

I wanted to drive her mad with need, to fill my senses with her warmth, her cries, her scent. I wanted to forget everything arrayed against me, even if it was just for a little while, and bare her an inch at a time. The emptiness that her warmth had begun to fill howled at me to let go.

Apocalypses always kick off at the witching hour. That's something you know now.