1,269 Quotes by Jim Butcher

It’s easy to do the right thing when it doesn’t cost you. Not as easy to do the right thing when your back is to the wall.” Fitz.

I’m afraid it isn’t good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad.

It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done. I turned around and ran like hell.

It was a loss of identity. I was a wizard. It was more than just a job, more than just a title. Wizardry was at the core of my being. It was my relationship with my magic, the way I used it, the things it let me do that defined me, shaped me, gave me purpose. I.

I don’t have a muse. I have a mortgage.

I don’t always knock down doors,” I said. “Sometimes it’s a wall.

All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I’m Harry Dresden. I’m the new Winter Knight.

I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn’t roar. But it sort of growled...

Mathematically, maybe,” I said. “But trust isn’t one of those things that lends itself well to math.” “Sure it does,” Bob said. “You trust somebody, they betray you, you get a negative value. You never trust, they can never disappoint you, you break even.