Top 500 Jim Butcher Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can’t help but like him a little.”

— Jim Butcher

452. “You don’t gain knowledge without a little pain.”

— Jim Butcher

453. “Hell’s Bells-Harry Dresden.”

— Jim Butcher

454. “I can’t tell you how many jobs I’ve done without a hitch since the last time I saw you, Dresden. You walk through the door and everything goes to hell.” “That’s embroidered on my towels, actually,” I said.”

— Jim Butcher

455. “See, here’s the thing. Morgan was right: you can’t win them all. But that doesn’t mean that you give up. Not ever. Morgan never said that part – he was too busy living it.”

— Jim Butcher

456. “I am pure of heart and mind,” I told her. “I cannot be corrupted.”

— Jim Butcher

457. “It isn’t complicated. You just open up and let someone in. And whatever comes after that, you face it together.”

— Jim Butcher

458. “What do you do to make up for failing everyone in your life? How do you make it right? How do you apologize for hideous things you never intended to happen?”

— Jim Butcher

459. “Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women’s panties spontaneously evaporate.”

— Jim Butcher

460. “Here’s something else I bet you didn’t know about Tyrannosaurs: they don’t corner well.”

— Jim Butcher

461. “Mathematically, maybe,” I said. “But trust isn’t one of those things that lends itself well to math.” “Sure it does,” Bob said. “You trust somebody, they betray you, you get a negative value. You never trust, they can never disappoint you, you break even.”

— Jim Butcher

462. “It was like a fire in my thoughts, my concentration, burning ever more brightly, more pure, refining my anger, my hate, into something steel-hard, steel-sharp. I could feel it burning, and reached for it eagerly, shoving the pain inside to fuel my incandescent anger.”

— Jim Butcher

463. “I put the ick in magic.”

— Jim Butcher

464. “Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.”

— Jim Butcher

465. “I’d fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.”

— Jim Butcher

466. “Cowl’s apprentice was tough and competent, but no amount of training or forethought can prepare you for the sight of an angry dinosaur coming to eat your ass.”

— Jim Butcher

467. “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

468. “I was casting everything I had done, everything I believed, everything I had chosen – everything I was – against the will of an ancient being of darkness, terror, and malice, a fundamental power of the world. And the bonds and the will of Mother Winter could not constrain me.”

— Jim Butcher

469. “You’ve got it backward, Harry,” he said. “You are a soul. You have a body.”

— Jim Butcher

470. “Hope lets you do things you would otherwise never be able to do, gives strength when everything is darkest. In.”

— Jim Butcher

471. “Speak, then, manling,” said Mother Winter. “You have a little time left.”

— Jim Butcher

472. “It’s one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?” And that’s how I knew that Mort was telling the whole truth when he said he wasn’t a hero. Heroes know better than to hand the universe lines like that.”

— Jim Butcher

473. “I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.”

— Jim Butcher

474. “It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.”

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475. “Dawn is significant, magically speaking. It is a time of new beginnings.”

— Jim Butcher

476. “Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.”

— Jim Butcher

477. “I’ve had worse,” Michael said, his voice strained. He shifted his weight, testing the leg, and made a hissing sound – but it supported his weight. “Only a flesh wound.” “Yeah,” I said. “’Tis but a scratch. Come on, ya pansy.” He blinked and looked at me. “Pansy?” “Oh,” I said. “You weren’t quoting the movie. Sorry.” “Movie?” “Holy Grail?” “Nicodemus still has it.” I sighed. “Never mind.”

— Jim Butcher

478. “The hardest lesson a wizard has to learn is that even with so much power, there are some things you can’t control. No matter how much you want to.”

— Jim Butcher

479. “If you want to live, if you want your friends and family to live, I expect you to do more than survive it,” Mab said, sweeping out. “I expect you to skin them alive.”

— Jim Butcher

480. “Come with me if you want to live.”

— Jim Butcher

481. “I work in grand halls and bedchambers with wine and perfume. Not in dark alleyways with cloaks and knives. I don’t like knives. I don’t even own a knife. And my cloaks are far too expensive to risk bloodying.”

— Jim Butcher

482. “If Gabriel is an ambassador, if Michael is a general, if Rafael is a healer and spiritual champion, then Uriel is a spymaster – Heaven’s spook.”

— Jim Butcher

483. “Now that I’ve got this to keep me safe off the island,” I said very quietly, “what’s to stop me from having Alfred drop you into a cell right this second, and solving my problems myself?” “I am,” Mab said. She gave me a very small, very chill smile, and held up her finger. There was a tiny droplet of my blood upon it, scarlet against her pale skin.”

— Jim Butcher

484. “Sometimes you don’t know the most important things,” Tavi said. “You believe them.”

— Jim Butcher

485. “I snagged a golden paper crown from one of the bags, and idly joined it into a circle and put it on my head. Susan blinked at me and let out a brief laugh. ‘I am’ I intoned with an imperious narrowing of my eyes, ’the burger king.”

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486. “You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.”

— Jim Butcher

487. “I’ve had a tense couple of days. And I’ve got to tell you, burning someone’s face off sounds like a great way to relax.”

— Jim Butcher

488. “Let me be clear that I never offered House Astor an insult... Nor did I insult Reginald. I simply described him in accurate terms. If he finds himself insulted by the truth, it’s hardly my concern.”

— Jim Butcher

489. “Duty flows uphill and down.” He.”

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490. “Life?” I suggested. She shrugged. “Desire. Loneliness. Joy. Pain.” “Life,” I said.”

— Jim Butcher

491. “They say screwy things, make odd choices which, in retrospect, they feel amazingly foolish for making.”

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492. “Life is too short, Harry. And there’s nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it’s gone.”

— Jim Butcher

493. “Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn’t seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.”

— Jim Butcher

494. “The moon rose in silver splendor into an October sky strewn with pale clouds and brilliant stars. The clouds churned, a white-foam sea, and the moon was a vast, graceful clipper ship, its sails full of spectral light as it ran before the strength of the cold autumn winds.”

— Jim Butcher

495. “You’ve never been a peasant in medieval France, Harry,” Bob said. “Life was hard for those people. Never enough food, shelter, medicine. If you could give yourself a fur coat and the ability to go out and hunt your own meat, you would have jumped at the chance, too.”

— Jim Butcher

496. “You know how to use magic?” I asked. “I prefer calculus.”

— Jim Butcher

497. “I look at things and think about them,′ Folly replied. ‘And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply.”

— Jim Butcher

498. “Seedy wasn’t a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.”

— Jim Butcher

499. “Me and polite have never been on close terms.”

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500. “I don’t believe in faeries!”

— Jim Butcher