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“Vampires on a diet?’ Susan murmured beneath her breath. ‘Yeah,’ I said back, sotto voce. ‘Make hers a Blood Lite.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life.’ I called power into my blasting rod, and its tip glowed incandescent white. ‘The way I see it, there’s nothing else worth fighting a war for.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“The werewolves let out a full-throated howl, eerie and savage. Meryl screamed, wild and loud, and even Fix let out a tinny battle shriek. The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the hell. ‘I don’t believe in faeries!”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

“Bob was a spirit being, a spirit of intellect from one of the more surreal corners of the Nevernever. He wasn’t evil as much as he was magnificently innocent of any kind of morality,”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“When was the last time you could taste and feel some little lovely’s cries?’ I regarded her without any expression and said, in a gentle voice, ‘Technically? When I killed Aurora.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“If you scrunch up your eyes a little, you can almost imagine its features as medieval ramparts and towers and crenellation, standing like some ancient mountain bastion, determined to defend the citizens of Chicago against the plagues and evils of the world. Provided they have enough medical coverage, of course.”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favour

“I’m not a doctor,” Butters said. We’d done this dance several times. “You are the Mighty Butters,” I said. “You can do anything.” “I’m a medical examiner. I cut up corpses.” “If it helps, think of this as a preventative autopsy.”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

“He had discovered weakness in himself, but that wasn’t something to be ashamed of. Because of that weakness, he could help in ways nobody else could.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism.”
― Jim Butcher, Ghost Story

“Thomas, like most men, regarded a throw pillow as something to throw.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you’re going to go.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“Michael was looking at me very oddly as he lowered the Sword. “What?” I asked him. “Charity,” he predicted, “is not going to be pleased.”
― Jim Butcher, Skin Game

“The Knights of the Blackened Denarius each bear one of Judas’s silver coins with a fallen angel trapped inside,” I said. “You guys are their … their opposites. You each bear a sword worked with a nail from the Crucifixion …” I rolled one hand encouragingly. “With an angel inside,” breathed Butters. There was a stunned silence around the little circle. “Balance,” I said. “I think it knows because it knows, Butters.” “Oh God,” Butters breathed in a whisper. “I accidentally ran it through the laundry once.”
― Jim Butcher, Peace Talks

“They say civilization is a thin veneer over barbarism. Chicago stood waiting for the first tearing sound.”
― Jim Butcher, Battle Ground

“I wonder what it says about me that pizza has been one of the better long-term investments in my career.”
― Jim Butcher, Battle Ground

“There are a lot of ways to get ready for trouble. You get ready to fight. That’s one of them. But it’s even more important that you build something worth fighting for.”
― Jim Butcher, Battle Ground

“It wasn’t that they didn’t take an interest in the world around them. On the contrary, they had a deep, personal and passionate involvement in it, but instead of asking, ‘Why are we here?’ they asked, ‘Is it going to rain before the harvest?’ A philosopher might have deplored this lack of mental ambition, but only if he was really certain about where his next meal was coming from.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“On the rare maps of the Ramtops that existed, it was spelled Überwald. But Lancre people had never got the hang of accents and certainly didn’t agree with trying to balance two dots on another letter, where they’d only roll off and cause unnecessary punctuation”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“This is Lancre we’re talkin’ about. If we was men, we’d be talking about layin’ down our lives for the country. As women, we can talk about laying down.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“GOOD MORNING. Vimes blinked. A tall dark robed figure was now sitting in the boat. ‘Are you Death?’ IT’S THE SCYTHE, ISN’T IT? PEOPLE ALWAYS NOTICE THE SCYTHE. ‘I’m going to die?’ POSSIBLY. ‘Possibly? You turn up when people are possibly going to die?’ OH, YES. IT’S QUITE THE NEW THING. IT’S BECAUSE OF THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. ‘What’s that?’ I’M NOT SURE.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

“William wondered why he always disliked people who said ‘no offence meant’. Maybe it was because they found it easier to say ‘no offence meant’ than actually refrain from giving offence.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth

“Humanity practically was things that didn’t have a position in time and space, such as imagination, pity, hope, history and belief. Take those away and all you had was an ape that fell out of trees a lot.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“Seeing things a human shouldn’t have to see makes us human.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“The cemetery of Small Gods was for the people who didn’t know what happened next. They didn’t know what they believed in or if there was life after death and, often, they didn’t know what hit them. They’d gone through life being amiably uncertain, until the ultimate certainty had claimed them at the last. Among the city’s bone orchards the cemetery was the equivalent of the drawer marked Misc, where people were interred in the glorious expectation of nothing very much.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“No,’ said Tiffany, patiently. ‘It’s about zoology.’ ‘Zoology, eh? That’s a big word, isn’t it.’ ‘No, actually it isn’t,’ said Tiffany. ‘Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“No magic at all. But that time it had been magic. And it didn’t stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Good. Now … if you trust in yourself …’ ‘Yes?’ ‘… and believe in your dreams …’ ‘Yes?’ ‘… and follow your star …’ Miss Tick went on. ‘Yes?’ ‘… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. Goodbye.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men