Jim Butcher
Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.Collection: White
Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.Collection: Animal
I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.Collection: Eye
Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.Collection: White
I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me that took a dark joy in gathering all the power it could and using it as I saw fit, everything else be damned. There was power to be had in hatred, too, in anger and in lust, in selfishness and in pride. And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos.Collection: Fun
Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?Collection: Dinosaurs
See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.Collection: Religious
You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?Collection: Jesus
All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.Collection: Giving
I'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.Collection: Soldier
I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.Collection: Harry Dresden
I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.Collection: Intelligent
I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.Collection: Car
Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on." Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?" It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Thinking
There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.Collection: Want
God save me from idealists.Collection: Save Me
Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some." Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.Collection: People
A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.Collection: Latin
I don't believe in faeries!Collection: Believe
Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.Collection: Women
Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.Collection: Women
Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?Collection: Jelly
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.Collection: Light
I 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 interests. Faeries and vampires and whatnot -- those I can fathom. Even demons. Sometimes, even the Fallen. I can understand why they do what they do. 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 ideaCollection: Race
Survival was not enough. One had to live.Collection: Survival
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.Collection: Relationship
Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.Collection: Jobs
There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.Collection: Hands
Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.Collection: Laughter
Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.Collection: People
It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.Collection: Lying
You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.Collection: Firsts
I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.Collection: Believe
Right,' 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 spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim ButcherCollection: Kings
Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love youCollection: Lying
I put the ick in magic.Collection: Magic
There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.Collection: Swordsman
Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly,” I said. “Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking.” She sniffed. “This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It’s okay to like both.” “Blasphemy and lies,” I said.Collection: Stars
My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?Collection: Friday
I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.Collection: Memories
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.Collection: Laughter
I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.Collection: Spiritual
You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.Collection: Cheer
Murphy nodded, frowning at the road ahead of her. "The reason treachery is so reveiled," she said in a careful tone of voice, "is because it usually comes from someone you didn't think could possibly do such a thing.Collection: Thinking
I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice. It’s the choice that counts.Collection: Choices
Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.Collection: Sleep
All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.Collection: Queens
Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.Collection: Pain