Jim Butcher Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Family #People #Hell

“Ah. Medieval-style ransom.” Toot looked confused. “He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.” There were several conspicuous sounds behind me, the loudest from my apprentice, and I turned to eye everyone else. They were all either covering smiles or holding them back— poorly. “Hey, peanut gallery,” I said. “This isn’t as easy as I’m making it look.” “You’re doing fine,” Karrin said, her eyes twinkling. I sighed. “Come on, Toot,” I said, and walked over to Hook.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Running #Confused #Eye

“There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear....”
-- Jim Butcher

#Wall #Night #Light

“The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Fire #Faults #Building

“He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Stupid #Black #World

“Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.” “You? A Princess Bride quote?” I croaked. “What is that?” she asked.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Princess #Sleep #Morrow

“What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
-- Jim Butcher

#Eye #Destiny #Choices

“He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Coats #Red #Pockets

“The movie of my life must be really low budget.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Lows

“HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment”
-- Jim Butcher

#Party #Advice #Wizards

“I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Children #Skulls #Battle

“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.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Pigs #Noses #Cows

“If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Fighting #Winning #Eight

“But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Hero #Sacrifice #Perfect

“Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Trying #Heroism #Pay

“Sleep is God. Go worship.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Sleep #Worship

“There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Mean #Choices #Might

“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Stars #Chinese #Stones

“The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Sacrifice #Thinking #Dinner

“You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Cat #Shopping #Bird

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
-- Jim Butcher

#Life #Journey #Doors

“Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Sticks #May #Stones

“Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.”
-- Jim Butcher

#White #Sprinkles #Said

“Those who deal in magic learn to see the world in a slightly differnt light than everybody else.you gain a perspective you had considered before. A way of thinking that would never have occurred to you with out exposure to the things a wizard sees and hears.When you look in to some ones eyes you see them in that other light and for just a second they see you in the same way.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Eye #Thinking #Light

“Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcone inquired. "The plural could be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Art #Latin #Believe

“My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Sexy #Stars #Hair

“I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Women #Real #Heart

“Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Real #Guy #Warning

“And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos”
-- Jim Butcher

#Fun #Dark #Long

“No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.”
-- Jim Butcher

#Mean #Wicked #Bob