Quotes from Jim Butcher

Any will can be broken.

Why did you do it?" I got annoyed. "I had personal reasons." "Which are?" "Personal," I said.

He looks something like a Caucasian." "Impossible," I said. "He has rhythm and he can dance.

The only things I had clean were more sweats and another T-shirt, this one proclaiming in bold letters over a little cartoon graveyard, 'EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED – THEY FOUND THE BODY.

It is good that we cleared the air. Is there anything else you want to say?" I eyed the man and said, "You went blond. It makes you look sort of gay.

Immortality offers a significant advantage, but it is no substitute for intelligence. Remember that, young wizard.

Tonight, he is the enemy of my enemy." Toot gasped and gripped his spear more tightly. "A double enemy!

Sorry to spoil your man time, there, Hemmingway.

I had never much believed in God. Well, that's not quite true. I believed that there was a God, or something close enough to it to warrant the name—if there were demons, there had to be angels, right? If there was a Devil, somewhere, there had to be a God. But He and I had never really seen things in quite the same terms.

And we owe them the gesture of helping to make their future more secure after what we took from them.

Mister Dresden. What happened to your face?" "It's always like this," I said. "I forgot to put on my makeup today.

You've got to talk to someone. It doesn't have to be me or here, but you've got to do it. There's no shame in feeling bad about killing someone, not for any reason.

One of the Old Ones is known as the Sleeper. It's said his tomb is somewhere under the Pacific. And that goddamned moron Lovecraft published stories and easy-to-remember rhymes about the thing.

Ease up on yourself, man. You can't change the past.

The soreness lifted out of my muscles, and my cloudy, cloggy thought processes cleared as though someone had flushed my synapses with jalapeño.

The shimmering field of the veil around us made us look like blurs in the air, maybe a little bit more obvious than a Predator.

With pure hearts and good intentions," he answered. "Our strength shall be the strength of ten.

I'll have my cell phone on me. Try to call me before things start exploding." "Maybe this time it'll be different. Maybe I'll work everything out through reason, diplomacy, dialogue, and mutual cooperation." Thomas eyed me. I tried to look wounded. "It could happen.

All right, so. The entire day wasn't a living hell. But, as it turned out, hell got up awfully early in the morning.

Death was something that happened to everyone - only the timing is different, for each of us.

There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expectations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would.

Now hear me, brother," I said gently. "Cease your attempts to harm my humans. Depart this city. Do not come back." "Or else?" he asked. "There is nothing else," I replied calmly. "You will do these things. The only question is whether you will do them of your own will or if I must teach you how.

but the worst injury was on her back, just inside of her left clavicle—a nasty puncture wound.

Michael sighed. Harry, God does protect us from harm -- it's part of what I and my brothers in arms are tasked to do. But He's a great deal less involved in protecting us from the consequences of our choices.