quotes by Jim Butcher

""...just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face." - Harry Dresden"
— Jim Butcher

""My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.""
— Jim Butcher (White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9))

"You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me."
— Jim Butcher (Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, Book 8))

"Harry, what you know about women, I could juggle.

Bob the Skull
"
— Jim Butcher (Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1))

"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. "
— Jim Butcher

""Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.""
— Jim Butcher (Small Favor (The Dresden Files, Book 10))

"Me and polite have never been on close terms."
— Jim Butcher

"In name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!"
— Jim Butcher (Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, Book 4))

"You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Bob the skull"
— Jim Butcher (Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, Book 8))

"There are Old swordsmen and bold swordsmen, But Few old, bold swordsmen "
— Jim Butcher

"Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - gradutaing, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expecations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens.

And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realized that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another."
— Jim Butcher

"My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour."
— Jim Butcher (Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, Book 2))

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

""An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a gallon of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying, purple, pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!"
"
— Jim Butcher (Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, Book 6))

"Those who deal in magic learn to see the world in a slightly differnt light than everybody else.you gain a perspective you had considered before. A way of thinking that would never have occurred to you with out exposure to the things a wizard sees and hears.When you look in to some ones eyes you see them in that other light and for just a second they see you in the same way. "
— Jim Butcher

"Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change."
— Jim Butcher

"The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault."
— Jim Butcher (Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, Book 6))

"My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way."
— Jim Butcher

"Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?"
— Jim Butcher (Small Favor (The Dresden Files, Book 10))