“Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.”
— Jim Butcher“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”
— Jim Butcher“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
— Jim Butcher“You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.”
— Jim Butcher“You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.”
— Jim Butcher“Ack! I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.”
— Jim Butcher“In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.”
— Jim Butcher“Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.”
— Jim Butcher“I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry.”
— Jim Butcher“I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.”
— Jim Butcher“I still can't believe, Michael said, sotto voce, that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.”
— Jim Butcher“That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.”
— Jim Butcher“I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.”
— Jim Butcher“Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.”
— Jim Butcher“I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.”
— Jim Butcher“How long have you been a Wiccan?''A what?''A pagan. A witch.''I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.'Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?''Wizard has a Z'He looked at me blankly.'No one appreciates me.' I muttered.”
— Jim Butcher“It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.I turned around and ran like hell.”
— Jim Butcher“- Did you really save the world ?...- Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.”
— Jim Butcher“I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.”
— Jim Butcher“I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.”
— Jim Butcher“We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.”
— Jim Butcher“Apocalypse is a frame of mind. [Nicodemus] said then. A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.”
— Jim Butcher“I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.”
— Jim Butcher