1,269 Quotes by Jim Butcher

Sometimes, Hoss,” he said very gently, “you lose. Sometimes the darkness takes everyone. Sometimes the monster escapes to kill again another day.” He shook his head and looked down. “Sometimes, Hoss, the innocent little ones are murdered. And there’s not one goddamned thing you can do about it.

Somewhere out there was a village I’d deprived of it’s idiot.

She held up her hand, palm up – another one of those gestures, their meanings forgotten by everyone except for long-term wackjobs like Dresden.

Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don’t tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders.

See? This is why I’m not religious. I couldn’t possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

You’ve got it backward, Harry,” he said. “You are a soul. You have a body.

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store’s ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.

We’re all so damned fragile.

Cowl’s apprentice was tough and competent, but no amount of training or forethought can prepare you for the sight of an angry dinosaur coming to eat your ass.