Quotes by Jim Butcher

About Jim Butcher:

Jim Butcher is a New York Times best selling author best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He also wrote the Codex Alera series.
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I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO...

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Thank God for imminent doomsday.

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Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

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The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic c...

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There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

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Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specific...

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Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

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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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Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

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Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

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No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for what might be very good reasons. They make choice ...

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The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

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If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned ...

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I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

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People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

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Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

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I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him." "Thwart?" Sarissa asked. "Thwart." I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the def...

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You have a visitor, my lord." I frowned, "What?" "That is why I came in here. You have a visitor waiting for you." I stood up, exasperated. "Why didn't you say so?" Lacuna looked confused. "I did. Just now. You were there." She frowned thoughtfully. ...

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Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

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Why?” I asked him tiredly. “What would it have changed? What could you possibly have said that would have made a difference?” “That I was your brother, Harry,” he said. “That I loved you. That I knew a few things about denying the dark pa...

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Empty night, Harry. Didn't your little adventure in the lake teach you a damned thing?" I scowled some more. "Like what?" "Like life is short," he [Thomas] said. "Like you don't know when it's going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can't ever b...

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Author Bio

  • NameJim Butcher
  • Descriptionauthor from the USA
  • BornOctober 26, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist
  • WorksThe Dresden Files; Codex Alera