Jim ButcherMagic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards… ▶371HumanityReadingThought
Jim ButcherYou know the law, Dresden. He who kills the cheer springs for beer, chanted the rest of the table. ✨ Jim Butcher (2010). Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files, p.115, Pe… ▶371Politics
Jim ButcherBut there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't… ▶361HopeReading
Jim ButcherEverything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land. ✨ Jim Butcher (2012). Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files, p.24, Penguin372Reading
Jim ButcherI'm brilliant as well as skilled, he said modestly. It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can. ✨ Jim Butcher (2… ▶361DeathReading
Jim ButcherAs far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms. Eh? Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit. ✨ Jim Butcher (2009). Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dres… ▶361Reading
Jim ButcherI don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges… ▶372ReadingThought
Jim ButcherAs a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary ✨ Changes. Book by Jim Butcher, 2010.362HumanityReading
Jim ButcherAs in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'? The skull howled with laughter. You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?I wouldn't say they handed me my ass, I said.Bob was nea… ▶362HumorReading
Jim ButcherSee? 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 (2008). White Night: A Novel of the Dre… ▶351Reading
Jim Butcher...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team. … ▶351Reading
Jim ButcherParanoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to… ▶351Time
Jim ButcherRight,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spell… ▶373Humanity
Jim ButcherHe seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulat… ▶374Thought
Jim ButcherHello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a Komodo dragon. 'Don't you hello angel me. D… ▶341Reading
Jim ButcherLife is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a lit… ▶341LifeReading
Jim ButcherI once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album. ✨ Jim Butcher (2011). Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files, p.36, Penguin374Reading
Jim ButcherYour face looks like a sack of purple potatoes ✨ Jim Butcher (2001). Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files, p.173, Penguin341Reading
Jim ButcherYou suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone. ✨ Jim Butcher (2010). The Dresden Files Collection 1-6, p.1872, Penguin331Reading
Jim ButcherThere are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and jus… ▶375LifeReadingTime
Jim ButcherYou're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.353Death
Jim ButcherI don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they're working in His best interest… ▶364HumanityReadingThought
Jim ButcherNo one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, … ▶354Thought
Jim ButcherPansy, Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant. ✨ Jim Butcher (2010). Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files, p.292,… ▶343Reading
Jim ButcherHope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different. ✨ Jim Butcher (2010). Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files, p.221, Penguin365HopeReading
Jim ButcherI grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of mo… ▶343PoliticsTime
Jim ButcherThis is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight. ✨ Jim Butcher (2010). The Dresden Files Collection 7-12, p.3353, Penguin343Politics
Jim ButcherKeep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground. ✨ Jim Butcher (2009). Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files, p.… ▶354Reading
Jim ButcherUnicorns, I said. Very dangerous. You go first. ✨ Jim Butcher (2002). Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files, p.282, Penguin332Reading
Jim ButcherSticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.354Politics
