1,269 Quotes by Jim Butcher

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you’re saying?

The vampire’s true appearance was grotesque – but it wasn’t as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a lot worse, and some of the Elder Things could rip your mind apart just by letting you look at them.

Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.” Harry Dresden.

I listened. Listening isn’t hard to do. No one has practice at it, nowadays, but you can train yourself to pay attention to your senses if you work at it long enough.

Rowl reminded himself that cats were eternally patient, and that he would not simply explode if he did not fling himself from Littlemouse’s arms and go exploring. Which was not to say that he could not do so if he wished, because cats were also their own masters. He decided that his patience was practically legendary- which was fortunate...

And if I was to die, I was not going to go out in a gibbering heap of terror.

Caring about someone isn’t complicated. It isn’t easy. But it isn’t complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

The only thing certain in life is change.

But I’ve noticed that people got the most irrational whenever family was around – while simultaneously losing their ability to distinguish reason from insanity. I call it familial dementia.