1,269 Quotes by Jim Butcher

Most of the bad guys in the real world don’t know that they are bad guys. You don’t get a flashing warning sign that you’re about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren’t looking.

Bridget blinked once. “Books do not have souls, sir.” “Those who write them do,” Ferus said. “They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential nature.” He sniffed. “Most untidy, really – but assemble enough scraps and one might have something approaching a whole.” “You believe that the library has a soul,” Bridget said carefully. “I do not believe it, young lady,” Ferus said rather stiffly. “I know it.

I hadn’t realized, until I actually heard his voice, how much I’d missed the demented little perv.

Dawn is significant, magically speaking. It is a time of new beginnings.

Faith, Harry. God has a way of seeing to it that things fall into place.

Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do.

Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren’t ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. – Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher.

You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.

I’m not exactly a useless cream puff.