Theresa > Theresa's Quotes

“Which was your favorite?” she asked. “You can’t pick a favorite,” I said. “They’re books. They’re pieces of someone’s mind and soul. They’re almost friends.” I started back down the stairs again. “Sometimes a poet speaks best to what’s happening to you. Sometimes it’s a philosopher. Sometimes it’s a storyteller. Lately, I’ve been thinking of Kipling a lot.”
― Jim Butcher, Twelve Months

“We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“Pain is a fire. And twelve months isn’t long enough to heal from life’s most severe burns. But, if you’re willing to work at it, it’s enough time to make a damned good start.”
― Jim Butcher, Twelve Months

“A thousand curses on you and those who spawned you! You've plagued me long enough, you stygian fiend! I don't know what sulfurous pit you've crawled out of, but I mean to return you to it! I'll send you on a voyage down the river Styx if it's the last thing I do!" Twain directed his attention back to the phone. "No, I wasn't talking to you, but most of what I said still applies.”
― Arthur Daigle, William Bradshaw and Fool's Gold

“Sometimes, Hoss,” he said very gently, “you lose. Sometimes the darkness takes everyone. Sometimes the monster escapes to kill again another day.” He shook his head and looked down. “Sometimes, Hoss, the innocent little ones are murdered. And there’s not one goddamned thing you can do about it.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“It's said on my world that the only thing evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing." - Will Bradshaw”
― Arthur Daigle, William Bradshaw and Fool's Gold

“And even though preternaturals routinely preyed on humans when they were alone or in small groups, everyone sane understood that humans in large numbers were both paranoid and extremely dangerous. Even a single lucky human could slay a mighty dragon. As time passed into the modern era their weapons and technology made them even more deadly.
The annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had silenced even the insane.”
― A.E. Lowan, Faerie Rising: The First Book of Binding

“So, he'll be motivated to take the deal. Please tell me if he says no you won't try to rob him." There was a long, awkward pause. "Jayden? No! Bad wizard!”
― Arthur Daigle, Dana Illwind and War's Shadow

“Either way,” Aodhán cut in, “it’s a lot like lacrosse—have you seen lacrosse?—it’s like lacrosse and American football had an unholy Irish baby.
Beneath a Stone Sky”
― A E Lowan

“Pain is a fire. That’s true for all of the people, some of the time. If you’ve never had to stand in that fire, be patient: Your turn is coming. Whether the pain is physical or purely mental doesn’t really matter—it turns out that your brain reacts to it the same way, lighting up many of the same centers of perception. Some brainy types in lab coats proved that one fairly recently. The suffering from a broken heart is similar to that from a gunshot wound, in terms of how our minds react over the long term. It all hurts. When you have to live with that hurt, with that pain, when there’s no way to turn it off or get away from it, you start to make adjustments. Your choices in how you deal with your pain determine the course of your recovery. That’s why people who go through a difficult ordeal sometimes come out stronger, and sometimes they come out broken—but they always come out… Changed. Pain is a fire.”
― Jim Butcher, Twelve Months

“Twain please!" Peck blubbered. "It was never personal. It was just business!"
"Oh Peck, do you think I'm mad at you? I"m a lawyer. I don't get mad. I don't get even." Twain gave him a wicked smile. " I sue people.”
― Arthur Daigle, William Bradshaw and Fool's Gold

“This is proof that Monday wants me dead...Wednesday wouldn't do this to me. It's laid back. Friday actually likes me! But Monday is a bitter, backstabbing treacherous day." - Thradly the Goblin.”
― Arthur Daigle, Goblin Stories

“Here is the place that separates life and death, sanity and madness, that is between darkness and light. Your soul has been traumatized and needs rest. This is the best place for that.” - The Woman in White”
― Theresa Van Spankeren, Between Darkness & Light

“If I'm going down, I'm taking it with me. M.A.D., bitch. I'm up for Mutually Assured Destruction - if that's what it takes.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“Fucksocks! It’s Chet the huge shaved vampyre cat, down on the street. He looks bigger, and I think he ate a meter maid. Her little cart is running and there’s an empty uniform on the curb.

Bad kitty!”
― Christopher Moore, Bite Me

“We fought.'
'A duel?'
'Nothing that formal. A simultaneous decision to murder one another is more like it.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Jayden? Wake up. We have a problem."
"Only one?"
"We have many problems. This is a new one."
Jayden rubbed his eyes and sat up. "What is it?"
"You know your friend Reginald Lootmore?" Dana pointed at a black cat glaring down at them from the rafters. "Isn't that his cat, Jump Scare?"
Jayden squinted in the dim light. "I do believe it is. I'm shocked he hasn't attacked us yet.”
― Arthur Daigle, Dana Illwind and War's Shadow

“I'm getting my ass kicked by tiny faeries!" I shouted back, fumbling to start the car. "They've got my freaking number!"

"Run away!" Bob giggled. "Run away! Tiny faeries!"

growled in frustration and popped the Redcap's hat down over Bob. "Stop being a jerk. This is serious."

Bob's voice was only barely muffled. It sounded like he couldn't breathe. "Serious! Tiny! Faeries! The m-m- mighty wizard Dresden!”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“Pain is a fire. That’s true for all of the people, some of the time. If you’ve never had to stand in that fire, be patient: Your turn is coming.”
― Jim Butcher, Twelve Months

“There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.”
― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

“As to blood—ah, blood, the whole subject fascinates me. I do like that as well, warm and dripping, when I am thirsty. And I am often thirsty.”
― Christopher Pike, The Last Vampire

“We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them.”
― Christopher Pike, Witch

“I'm afraid it isn't good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“Brasten chuckled. "Magic does not make a man good or bad. Before my imprisonment, I met noblemen, rich merchants, judges and sheriffs equaling, if not surpassing my master in their arrogance. Power corrupts men, regardless of its source. Too many hunger for it, striving to be better than their peers rather than helping them. In my experience, it is a rare man who can turn down power or willingly give it up. Such men are to be cherished and protected, for their lives are often cut short by the ambitious.”
― Arthur Daigle, Dana Illwind and War's Shadow

“Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore."

Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.”
― Christopher Pike, Black Blood

“A mangled corpse in the middle of a blood-drenched floor. Berserk FBI field agents drawing guns and shooting to kill. A little kung fu, a little John Wayne, and a few casual threats.
So far, I thought, my nerves jangling, just one more night on the job.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“I found him in a Dumpster one day when he was a kitten and he promptly adopted me. Despite my struggles, Mister had been an understanding soul, and I eventually came to realize that I was a part of his little family, and by his gracious consent was allowed to remain in his apartment. Cats. Go figure.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon