1,269 Quotes by Jim Butcher

Then why, Michael asked “are you expecting perfection out of yourself? Do you really think you’re that much better than the rest of us? That your powers make you a higher quality of human being? That your knowledge places you on a higher plane than everyone else on this world?

Some things just aren’t meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.

A technicality I’m prepared to hide wildly behind.

I mean, we’re all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we’re still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we’re immortal for more than a decade afterwards.

Those were long odds. Really, really long odds. Ridiculously long odds, really. When you have to measure them in astronomical units, it probably isn’t a good bet.

Ah, yes, a savage. Of the famous Chromotonsorial Cahokian Goth tribe.

I’ve always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

Because even if they are doing something immoral, I’d be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn’t perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I’m qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.

Here’s something else I bet you didn’t know about Tyrannosaurs: they don’t corner well.