Jim Butcher Quotes
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Jared Kincaid: Thus interrupting it. Thus kablowie, thus death.
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Karrin Murphy: Yes, Your honor, your victim was killed by a werewolf.
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Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.
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Harry Dresden: I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it.
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Marcone: In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.
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Harry Dresden: The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault.
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Harry Dresden: It’s not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They’re basically huge vibrators. With wheels.
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I'd never seen anyone go truly, old-school berserkergang, but that scream...It was like hearing an echo rolling down through the centuries from an ancient world, a more savage world, now lost to the mists of time. And suddenly I had no trouble at all believing her age.
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Spelunking is dangerous enough without adding in anything that could be described with the word 'ravening'.
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Warden Chandler: PS-Why, yes, I can in fact capitalize any words I desire. The language is English. I am English. Therefore mine is the opinion which matters, colonial heathen.
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Michael Carpenter: I still can’t believe, that you came to the Vampires’ Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.Harry Dresden: Not only that, but a cheesy vampire.
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Carlos Ramirez: Everyone else who lets me ride on their dinosaur calls me Carlos.
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Harry Dresden: A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.
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Harry Dresden: The U.S. isn’t a perfect place, but it’s better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.
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Harry Dresden: 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.
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Harry Dresden: The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.
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Johnny Marcone: Do you know what I think?Harry Dresden: You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.Marcone: Yes. I drew my gun.Harry Dresden: Okay.
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My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.
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Harry Dresden: Pretty sure that Roman Catholic priests don't have peeps. Too trendy and ephemeral. Like automobiles. And the printing press.
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He who kills the cheer springs for beer.
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Harry Dresden: Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Wizards and television.
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Harry Dresden: In McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.
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I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.
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Harry Dresden: Maybe it wasn't anything I'd done. Maybe the monsters had gone on strike. Yeah right.