Jim Butcher Quotes - Page 2

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

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.

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 has its assholes.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

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.

As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary

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.

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

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

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 possible times.

Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.

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

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Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

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

Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people are at their best, they’re acting in accordance with their soul. The ones who have gone bad don’t have bad souls. They’ve just given up on keeping in touch with them.

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

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.

I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

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.

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.