1,269 Quotes by Jim Butcher

Make ready to repel boarders.

We all have our demons.

The hardest lesson a wizard has to learn is that even with so much power, there are some things you can’t control. No matter how much you want to.

I don’t believe in faeries!

Five white candles surrounded my summoning circle, the points of an invisible pentacle. White for protection. And because they’re the cheapest color at Wal-Mart.

It doesn’t make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It’s what you do with it that matters.

Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you’re alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed.

Of course Evil’s afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it’d be up to a meter by now.

What is teaching but the art of planting and nurturing power?” Lea replied. “Mortals prattle on about lonely impulses of delight and the gift of knowledge, and think that teaching is a trade like metalsmithing or healing or telling lies on television. It is not. It is the dissemination of power unto a new generation and nothing less. For her, as for you, lessons demand real risk in order to attain their true rewards.