Top 500 Jim Butcher Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.”

— Jim Butcher

302. “My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.”

— Jim Butcher

303. “So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you’re saying?”

— Jim Butcher

304. “His voice was like the rest of him – about as exciting as a W-2.”

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305. “Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don’t want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.”

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306. “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.”

— Jim Butcher

307. “They were donuts of darkness.”

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308. “I have a monster under my bed, and it’s Mouse.”

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309. “It’s not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it.”

— Jim Butcher

310. “Rowl reminded himself that cats were eternally patient, and that he would not simply explode if he did not fling himself from Littlemouse’s arms and go exploring. Which was not to say that he could not do so if he wished, because cats were also their own masters. He decided that his patience was practically legendary- which was fortunate...”

— Jim Butcher

311. “Marcone’s scum, but he’s his own scum” -Harry Dresden.”

— Jim Butcher

312. “Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don’t know his true name anyway. You’d never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don’t think anyone has stones that big.”

— Jim Butcher

313. “There are people who love you, Faith. Or who one day will. Even if you can’t see them beside you, right here, right now, they’re out there. But if you let the dark get into your eyes, you might never find them. So it’s best to keep a little light with you, along the way.”

— Jim Butcher

314. “So, ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless? I know it’s tempting to think to yourself, “The man can’t possibly be that stupid!” But yes. Yes, he can.”

— Jim Butcher

315. “Death isn’t something anyone likes to think about, but the fact is that you can’t get out of it. No matter what you do, how much you exercise, how religiously you diet, or meditate, or pray, or how much money you donate to your church, there is a single hard, cold fact that faces everyone on earth: One day it’s going to be over. One day the sun will rise, the world will turn, people will go about their daily routines – only you won’t be in it. You’ll be still. And cold.”

— Jim Butcher

316. “It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store’s ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.”

— Jim Butcher

317. “They get caught up in right and wrong. Or right and left. But none of that stuff matters if people aren’t free.” Titania.”

— Jim Butcher

318. “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.”

— Jim Butcher

319. “Children run everywhere for a reason – it’s fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.”

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320. “Uh,” I said, feeling somewhat off balance. “What do I think of gay guys?” “Yes.” “Boink and let boink, more or less.”

— Jim Butcher

321. “The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean.”

— Jim Butcher

322. “Ease off the martyr throttle.”

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323. “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.”

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324. “I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.”

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325. “Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.”

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326. “We’re all so damned fragile.”

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327. “The freaking Leanansidhe, deputy of Her Wickedness, with her Nietzsche and Darwin Were Sentimental Pansies outlook on life.”

— Jim Butcher

328. “I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.”

— Jim Butcher

329. “I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”

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330. “Raw power doesn’t determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get done.”

— Jim Butcher

331. “In the Midwest, if you show up to a college town on a weekend, you risk running into a football game.”

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332. “You know, I believe it is possible to reference something other than Star Wars, boss.” I narrowed my eyes in Muppetly wisdom. “That is why you fail.”

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333. “Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. They resound in the heart and mind, they live long after the sounds of them have died away, they echo in the heart and the soul. They have power, and that power is very real. Those three words are good.”

— Jim Butcher

334. “It’s dark, close, cold, and intensely creepy down there. The fact that it was inhabited by things that had no love for mankind and potential radioactivity to boot didn’t do much to boost its tourism industry.”

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335. “Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic.”

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336. “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.”

— Jim Butcher

337. “I now had two handy shafts of wood with jagged, pointy ends. I stepped between Inari and the nearest vampire and passed her one broken half of the rod. “Here,” I said. “If you get the chance, make like Buffy.”

— Jim Butcher

338. “All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I’m Harry Dresden. I’m the new Winter Knight.”

— Jim Butcher

339. “Imagine Smaug’s treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste.”

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340. “I hear that they make disinfectants that don’t hurt these days. But Charity used iodine.”

— Jim Butcher

341. “The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you’re going to go.”

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342. “Monsters are born of pain and grief and loss and anger. Your heart is full of them.”

— Jim Butcher

343. “How are you going to talk to someone who has no idea?” Grimm said, nodding. “How can you explain something you can’t find words for? How can you get someone else to understand something for which they have no frame of reference?”

— Jim Butcher

344. “Make things right?” I asked. “Where did you learn that one?” “From Mr. Carpenter,” she said. “He says making things right is the first and last thing you should do every day. And that it’s what you always try to do.”

— Jim Butcher

345. “I’m so pretty, it’s hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.”

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346. “Fear and anger always come hand in hand. Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it.”

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347. “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.”

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348. “An honest man is a rare treasure.”

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349. “Pain is there to tell us when we’ve done something badly – it’s a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them.”

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350. “I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me.”

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