1,269 Quotes by Jim Butcher

For me chivalry isn’t dead; it’s an involuntary reflex.

I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren’t a twinkle in your great-grandcestor’s eyes. I think I know what I’m doing.

Significance is cumulative – but not always obvious.

My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom – and started figuring out how to rip someone’s heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?

The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. – Doroga.

You know, sometimes I think Someone up there really hates me.

That was the entire reason to have battle commanders in the first place – so that one man could balance the advantages of logic and reason against the emotional, insane demands of close battle.

For the record, surgeries aren’t pretty. there’s a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there’s more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn’t be out in the open, and they’re covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time.” Harry Dresden, Turn Coat.

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It’s the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.