Alex Tuttle > Alex's Quotes

“We'll make a new game of it," he offers. "Rule is, when you want me naked, you just ask. When you want to kiss me, you just fucking go for it.”
― Daryl Banner, Dorm Game

“Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
― Orson Welles

“I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“We are not going to die."

Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?"

"No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds."
"Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when you swear."
"You're right. Sorry. Holy shit," I breathed, "heckhounds.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.”
― Jim Butcher, Vignette

“In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic,” I said. “When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“I don’t know what the hell kind of flying horny mantis yoga position we’re in, but this shit’s not for beginners.”
― Daryl Banner, Beneath The Skin

“Her lips are so sexy, I imagine them consuming mine and kissing me without reprieve until I’m completely deprived of air. What a beautiful way to suffocate.”
― Daryl Banner, Beneath The Skin

“I still can't look at her. Really, when you're talking to someone, you shouldn't be able to see their brain through their forehead; it's just rude.”
― Daryl Banner, Dead Of Winter

“I glance at the stump that remains of my arm. "Damn it, Megan. You made me forget my hand!”
― Daryl Banner, Dead Of Winter

“I try to thank him and my jaw falls off.”
― Daryl Banner, Dead Of Winter

“I'd die for you," he repeats, quieter.
"I'd rather you not," I admit with a smile. "I would ... really miss your heartbeat.”
― Daryl Banner, Dead Of Winter

“Saving a life isn't just pulling a friend from the fire," he explains, the daredevil playing in his wet,
excited eyes. "It's thereafter keeping him from the fire. Saving a life means saving it over and over.”
― Daryl Banner, Outlier: Rebellion

“Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now. ”
― Jim Butcher