1,269 Quotes by Jim Butcher

Well,” Antillus Raucus said. “There it is.” “Brilliant last words,” Phrygius said beside him. “We’ll put them on your memorium. Right next to, ‘He died stating the obvious.’ ” “Ah,” Lord Placida said. “It begins.” “See?” Phrygius said. “Sandos knows how to go out with style.” “You want to go out with style, I’ll strangle you with your best silk tunic,” growled Antillus.

God isn’t about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He’s all about you making choices – exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won’t gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don’t want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

Hell’s bells, irony blows.

Fire isn’t always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

I didn’t follow her right away. She didn’t look back. Stab. Twist. God, I love being a wizard.

Stop learning, start dying.

I’m dealing with a lot of scary things,” she said. “I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. Or you become like Martin. Shut off from everything and everyone. Trying not to feel.

I’d been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it’s sort of depressing, thinking how many times I’d been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.