1,269 Quotes by Jim Butcher

It’s easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back.

Honest. It’s almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

Spear and magic helmet,” I said in my best Elmer Fudd voice. “Be vewy, vewy quiet. We’re hunting vampires.

There are people out there who enjoy hurting and scaring others. They’re going to keep doing it until you make them stop.

Intentions count for far less than the consequences of the actions born from them.

Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That’s why black magic is so easy – it comes from lust, from fear, from things that are easy to feed and make grow. The sort I do is harder. It comes from something deeper than that, a truer and purer source – harder to tap, harder to keep, but ultimately more elegant, more powerful.

The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight – not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn’t surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.

There aren’t any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.