1,269 Quotes by Jim Butcher

Dammit. What kind of weapons are they toting?” “Uh, teeth. Mostly teeth, Harry.” I glared at him. “Not the dogs.

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.

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold – Athena heading out on a Friday night.

Death isn’t something anyone likes to think about, but the fact is that you can’t get out of it. No matter what you do, how much you exercise, how religiously you diet, or meditate, or pray, or how much money you donate to your church, there is a single hard, cold fact that faces everyone on earth: One day it’s going to be over. One day the sun will rise, the world will turn, people will go about their daily routines – only you won’t be in it. You’ll be still. And cold.

You’re a cop. I need a doughnut.

As long as we’re going, we might as well go out in style.

Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn’t coming back?

She is my child,” Charity objected. “She was,” Forthill corrected her, “if only for a time. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.