Quotes by Jim Butcher

“It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe th...”

“There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst poss...”

“I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves d...”

“I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.”

“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 skycl...”

“Pain isnt a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain physical, emotional, and otherwise is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternati...”

“Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.”

“Are you always a smartass?'Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”

“You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.”

“I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.”

“We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" "No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stu...”

“We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.”

“In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!”

“I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.”

“So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?”

“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.”

“I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.”

“Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also ha...”

“Ack!" I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.”

“Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.”