Shadowed Souls Quotes

“Dammit, man. I’m a Faerie Princess, not a forensic analyst.” I”
― Jim Butcher, Shadowed Souls

“Fuck a Smurf and call him Gimpy, is that who I think it is?”
― Jim Butcher, Shadowed Souls

“purple is my favorite color that isn’t black, and”
― Jim Butcher, Shadowed Souls

“Every relationship ended. Sometimes it ended voluntarily with a break-up or an affair. Sometimes it ended with death. Only the lucky ones died together. Everyone else had to suffer through being a survivor. And she hated that term most of all.”
― Jim Butcher, Shadowed Souls

“staff cutbacks that meant nurses were working their asses off to cover the basics and, as a result, were barely maintaining a white-knuckled grip on civility. Bottom line: she hated hospitals for the same reason everyone else did. If she was in a hospital, it meant one of two things. She’d been hurt. Or someone she loved had been hurt.”
― Jim Butcher, Shadowed Souls

“I followed him into the living room. His battered thrift-store entertainment center was empty and toppled in the thieves’ haste to leave, as were the makeshift bricks-and-boards shelves that had held his movie and game collection. The rest of the room looked okay, or at least okay by college-bro standards. In some guys’ places, you’d be hard-pressed to know if they had been ransacked or not.”
― Jim Butcher, Shadowed Souls

“At the top of the broad steps, two fierce-looking stone lions crouched on pedestals. Just as we reached the top of the platform, a nervous-looking vampire scuttled out of the library entrance with a book hidden under his arm, and the two stone lions woke up. The ferocious living statues snorted, snarled, and rose on their heavy paws. The nervous vampire clutched his book and scuttled backward, looking from side to side, trapped. One lion bounded off its pedestal and pinned him to the ground. He flailed and screamed. “I’ll check out the book, I promise. I’ll check it out!” The vampire had been trying to smuggle out a hardcover copy of Twilight.”
― Jim Butcher, Shadowed Souls