Quotes from Jim Butcher

So," Murphy said. "All we need to do is get you up to the top of the pit, and then you're going to go one-on-four with a bunch of armed FBI agents-cum-werewolves and beat them in time to go up against the loup-garou that we couldn't stop before with all of your magical gizmos and a building full of police officers." "Essentially," I answered. Murphy

There is the world that should be," he growled, "and the world that is. We live in one." "And must create the other," Ebenezar retorted, "if it is ever to be.

That was the damnedest thing about these demonic collaborator types. Even though they didn't work out and practice, they still got to run faster than we dedicated roadsters who actually sweated and strained for our ability to haul ass. Jerks.

Of course it went badly," Karrin said. "It was a fight with someone in your family. Believe me, family fights are the worst." "The family hasn't even been assembled yet and there's fights," I complained. "Looks pretty assembled to me, from what I've seen," she said, her tone dry.

Don't worry," Michael said, quietly. "Just let me do the talking." Chapter Seven Michael rested his chin in his hands and sighed. "I can't believe we're in jail.

Moonrise," I told him, then turned on my heel and walked quickly from the alley, although my sock feet on the gravel, combined with my limp, probably spoiled the badass image.

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.

with unnatural fury and grace.

Justine was pretty enough, and sweet enough, when she wasn't walking the razor's edge of an organic emotional instability—but I couldn't really hold that against her. Plenty of people have to take some kind of medication to keep stable. Lithium, supermodel sex vampires—whatever works, I guess.

You'd think we would hold life in greater value than we do.

Do you know how to really control someone...? Give them what they want. Give them what they need. Give them what no one else can give. If you can do that, they'll come back to you again and again.

Ow," I complained. I keep my complaints succinct

Okay," I said, fear making my voice weak. This is bad. This is very, very bad." Wish

that underlay the city of Chicago.

The best way to keep yourself from doing something grossly self-destructive and stupid is to avoid the temptation to do it. For example, it is far easier to fend off inappropriate amorous desires if one runs screaming from the room every time a pretty girl comes in. Which sounds silly, I know, but the same principle applies to everything else.

I suspected that the more time I spent with my mouth full of food, the less time I would have to screw up at this stupid party.

If you scrunch up your eyes a little, you can almost imagine its features as medieval ramparts and towers and crenellation, standing like some ancient mountain bastion, determined to defend the citizens of Chicago against the plagues and evils of the world. Provided they have enough medical coverage, of course.

I'm not exactly Little Miss Stability. At least, not yet. But I'm working on it. Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear "no" often enough.

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I blinked and squinted against the light. I recognized the voice now. "Hi, Murphy. This is going to be one of those conversations, isn't it?

Do you understand the rules as I have given them to you?" "Yep," I said. "Yes," said Arianna. "Have you anything else to say?" "Always," I said. "But it can wait.

Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

So I, uh, sort of threw myself out of the passenger seat of a moving car. Don't look at me like that. I'm telling you, it made sense at the time.