Jim Butcher
I 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 and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book.Collection: Strong
Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to overcome darkness.Collection: Love
I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.Collection: Mortgage
If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.Collection: Silence
Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.Collection: Divergent
Okay," Kincaid said. "Anyone have any questions?" "Why do they sell hot dogs in packages of ten but hot dog buns in packages of eight?Collection: Dog
...It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?Collection: Littles
Answer my question, Dresden,' Nicodemus growled. 'What is that?' 'A precaution against getting stuck in deep snow,' I said. 'He's training to be a Saint Bernard.' 'Excuse me?' Nicodemus said. I mimed covering one of Mouse's ears with my hand and stage-whispered, 'Don't tell him that they don't actually carry kegs of booze on their collars. Break his little heart.Collection: Heart
Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.Collection: Sick
I put it down to the paranoia of advancing age. It isn't like I'm all that old or anything, especially for a wizard, but age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.Collection: Age
Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.Collection: Waiting
It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead again already. I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that?Collection: Mean
Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.Collection: Mind
When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.Collection: Stupid
Molly was committing dinner. . .Collection: Dinner
No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)Collection: Being Yourself
It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.Collection: Stupid
Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst.Collection: Men
The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.Collection: Thinking
I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.Collection: Giving
There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.Collection: Disposition
I once lost five years listening to a Pink Floyd album.Collection: Years
Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans who allowed the television to raise their children. People were looking for something - I think they just didn't know what. And even though they were once again starting to open their eyes to the world of magic and the arcane that had been with them all the while, they still thought I must be some kind of joke.Collection: Baby
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.Collection: Race
So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.Collection: People
I mean it," I said. "You're in danger." "Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.Collection: New York
For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.Collection: Chivalry
My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.Collection: Kevlar
You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.Collection: Moose
You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and— "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?Collection: Eye
When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?Collection: Done
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.Collection: Bugs
You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.Collection: Organization
Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.Collection: Broken
Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.Collection: Snacks
Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.Collection: Brother
Demonreach only wants Harry to see what's going on." "Why doesn't it just marry him?" Thomas muttered under his breath. "It sort of did," I said. "My brother the... geosexual?Collection: Brother
Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too. "It's cute," I whispered to Murphy. "He has a teddy Glock.Collection: Cute
Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.Collection: Train Wrecks
I found him in a Dumpster one day when he was a kitten and he promptly adopted me. Despite my struggles, Mister had been an understanding soul, and I eventually came to realize that I was a part of his little family, and by his gracious consent was allowed to remain in his apartment. Cats. Go figure.Collection: Struggle
Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.Collection: Animal
Souls, I said. I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence just this body? Is there really something more? Do I really have a soul?Uriel's smile blossomed again. You've got it backward, Harry, he said. You are a soul. You have a body.Collection: Real
Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.Collection: Gorillas
Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.Collection: Healing
It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.Collection: Motorcycle
The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.Collection: People
Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.Collection: Fleeting
A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.Collection: Behinds
Polka will never die.Collection: Dance