Quotes by Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.”

“I had this teacher who kept telling me that if I was ever in a fair fight, someone had made a mistake, she said”

“I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer...”

“Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they'...”

“...when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone bei...”

“Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.”

“You have a visitor, my lord." I frowned, "What?" "That is why I came in here. You have a visitor waiting for you." I stood up, exasperated. "Why didn't you say so?" Lacuna looked confused. "I did. ...”

“I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him." "Thwart?" Sarissa asked."Thwart." I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his...”

“No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, f...”

“Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.”

“Why? I asked him tiredly. What would it have changed? What could you possibly have said that would have made a difference?That I was your brother, Harry, he said. That I loved you. That I knew a fe...”

“Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.”

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

“The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.”

“Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.”

“The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.”

“If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places...”

“The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at le...”

“Wait. You work for me?""I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.”

“People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.”