Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 10

He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, "You are an untidy person.

You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.

If I need you I'll give you a signal.' What signal?" I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl

The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga

Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way

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.

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!

Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden

Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!

Crows," Maximus breathed. "Was that who I think it was?" "Phrygiar Navaris," Tavi said, nodding. "What was she doing here?" Max asked. "Getting humiliated, mostly. Especially there at the end.

This is what it look like when it WORKS?

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.

Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?

All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.

Pansy," Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.