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Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else. — Jim Butcher

That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate. — Jim Butcher

It hurts!" bellowed Ramirez drunkenly, flinging a last pair of bolts at a fleeing ghoul. "Ow! Ow, it hurts! It hurts to be this *good*! — Jim Butcher

Later. Bad habit to get into," Thomas said. "Life's too short. — Jim Butcher

I didn't follow her right away. She didn't look back. Stab. Twist. God, I love being a wizard. — Jim Butcher

It's a tradition," Grimm said. "Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures. — Jim Butcher

If you weren't getting pretty close to crazy right now, would you be talking to yourself right now? — Jim Butcher

He was wrong, that doesn't make him a villian. That makes him an asshole. — Jim Butcher

But I'd never been very good at expressing myself verbally. — Jim Butcher

I'm getting dumber by the minute," I confirmed. "Ask anybody. — Jim Butcher

Worry is fear in disguise. — Jim Butcher

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight. — Jim Butcher

This is what it look like when it WORKS? — Jim Butcher

Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave. — Jim Butcher

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you? — Jim Butcher

My cat walked on my face just after dawn. — Jim Butcher

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. — Jim Butcher

Her fate was, she realized, entirely in the hands of another person. Captain — Jim Butcher

Mab narrowed her eyes, and a little smile graced her lips. "Impudent," she said. "It's sweet on you. — Jim Butcher

It's a shadelight. Some of my men put one up whenever I lose a member of the crew. To light his shade's way back to his bunk, so he can rest. — Jim Butcher

Because it needs to be said," she murmured. "Because that's what happened. You deserve to know that. — Jim Butcher

You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles! — Jim Butcher

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville. — Jim Butcher

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy. — Jim Butcher

There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition. — Jim Butcher

Fear is a funny thing. In the right light, even tiny and insignificant fears can suddenly grow, swelling up to monstrous proportions. — Jim Butcher

Me and polite have never been on close terms. — Jim Butcher

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself. — Jim Butcher

The worst lies are almost always silence - or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core. — Jim Butcher

It's not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it. — Jim Butcher

But mostly, it ends badly when wizards try to stay too close to their kin. — Jim Butcher

Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return. — Jim Butcher

With your head, the wall breaks first. — Jim Butcher

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 ... — Jim Butcher

You okay?" Fix asked her.
"Have to be," she said. — Jim Butcher

In for a sheep, in for a gargant. — Jim Butcher

Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust. — Jim Butcher

Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells. — Jim Butcher

More than anything, she wanted to be someplace warm and safe
but duty was a cold and barren shelter for a wounded spirit. — Jim Butcher

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven. — Jim Butcher

Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding! — Jim Butcher

I know what it's like to lose it. — Jim Butcher

Polka will never die!" Butters screamed. "I can't believe I'm hearing this," Thomas muttered. — Jim Butcher

It's an old place, but it sings in the darkness and is, in its own quirky little way, alive. It's home. — Jim Butcher

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that. — Jim Butcher

You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony. — Jim Butcher

How about it, wizard? Cop? Maybe you've got stones enough to take it when I threaten you. I can admire that. — Jim Butcher

The deepest joys and most terrible wounds were both to be had from family. The — Jim Butcher

I kicked him in the head with my rented formal shoes. My shoe went flying off, which I was pretty sure never happened to James Bond. The — Jim Butcher

I declared her brain frozen and assumed command of the local Warden detachment, which was handy, since it consisted of only me anyway. — Jim Butcher

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea. — Jim Butcher

A duel would mean a fair fight, and I hate fair fights. In the words of a murderous Faerie Queen, they're too easy to lose. Of — Jim Butcher

There is no spoon. — Jim Butcher

Hell's bells," I muttered. "Harry, you idiot, when will you learn not to victory gloat? — Jim Butcher

You aren't explaining it very well." "Maybe," I said. "Or maybe you aren't learning it very well. — Jim Butcher

I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one. — Jim Butcher

And since when had I become the guy that things happened to ten years ago? — Jim Butcher

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

God save me from idealists. — Jim Butcher

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. — Jim Butcher

This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight. — Jim Butcher

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I said. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. — Jim Butcher

That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse. — Jim Butcher

Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already! — Jim Butcher

His red hair was buzz cut, and he wore his ill-fitting suit like something that he planned to rip his way out of when he turned into the Hulk. — Jim Butcher

Mister went to his spot before the fireplace and demanded that it be made warm. — Jim Butcher

But... my choices haven't always been very good," I said.
"Whose have?" he asked. — Jim Butcher

seeing a wizard cut loose can do that to — Jim Butcher

So you really could die. Your godmother is right, you know. You are mad as a hatter. Nutty as a fruitcake." "Crazy like a fox," I said. — Jim Butcher

In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game. — Jim Butcher

Imagine Smaug's treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste. — Jim Butcher

My doubts vanished as well. Doubt was for things that did not know their purpose, and I knew mine. — Jim Butcher

Thank God for wisecracks. — Jim Butcher

Woof," said Billy the Werewolf. — Jim Butcher

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. — Jim Butcher

Speak only to those who listen. Anything else is a waste of breath. The answers to your questions were there, if you listened for them. — Jim Butcher

If she were in a race for her life, that roar was the starter pistol. If God were the referee, He had just shouted Go. — Jim Butcher

the worst madmen don't seem odd at all," Grimm said. "They appear to be quite calm and rational, in fact. Until the screaming starts. — Jim Butcher

One day," I told myself, "one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool." I — Jim Butcher

Magic is a lot like language: it's all about stringing things together,
linking one thing with another, one idea with another. — Jim Butcher

What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be? — Jim Butcher

You can tell a great deal about a person by looking at the people who share his life. Isana — Jim Butcher

It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it. — Jim Butcher

It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care. — Jim Butcher

Hi, God, it's me, Harry. Please don't turn me into a pillar of salt. — Jim Butcher

Do you want to be my dad? — Jim Butcher

Pansy," Murphy sneered.
Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant. — Jim Butcher

The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight - not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable. — Jim Butcher

That's the worst part about the walking dead ... the stains. — Jim Butcher

My gast was pretty well flabbered. — Jim Butcher

Chew and smile? At the same time? Do I look like Jackie Chan? — Jim Butcher

He had no frame of reference, and couldn't read - most faeries were studiously averse to print. — Jim Butcher

If you go exploring, you might find something that could hurt you."
"If one doesn't , one is not truly exploring — Jim Butcher

One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored. — Jim Butcher

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel. — Jim Butcher

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine. — Jim Butcher

There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more ... secure. — Jim Butcher

I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity. — Jim Butcher

Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night? — Jim Butcher

I can disintegrate a virgin's inhibitions at fifty paces, but I can't last two weeks at a job where I'm wearing a stupid hairnet and a paper hat. — Jim Butcher