01UndatedI hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
02UndatedThe Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
03UndatedLike “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
05UndatedHARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other EntertainmentJim Butcher / quote ↗
06UndatedThere's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
07UndatedAnger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice."Constructive anger," the demon said, her voice dripping sarcasm. Also known as passion," I said quietly. "Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
09UndatedThere is but one reality, that is true -- but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
10UndatedYou beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If so, then face them and overcome them. Until then, pay them no mind. You have enough to think on.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
11UndatedRevenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
12UndatedEpic sex?" I sputtered. "By what standards, precisely, is sex judged to be epic?""And tons and tons of mortal simps like you used as pawns." Bob sighed happily, ignoring my question. "There are no words. It was like the Lord of the Rings and All My Children made a baby with the Macho Man Randy Savage and a Whac-A-Mole machine.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
13UndatedChildren have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
14UndatedIt gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
15UndatedI think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
16UndatedIf you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
17UndatedMaybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I’m a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers–all that sort of thing.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
18UndatedId me didn't have to be concerned with long-term consequences. He was my instinctive, primitive self, driven by my most primal impulses. I wondered, briefly, if 'id' and 'idiot' came from the same root.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
19UndatedWhat is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?Jim Butcher / quote ↗
20UndatedThe course of history is determined not by battles, by sieges, or usurpation, but by the individuals. The strongest army is, at its most basic level, a collection of individuals. Their decisions, their passions, their foolishness, and their dreams shape the years to come. If there is any lesson to be learned from history, it is that all too often the fate of armies, of cities, of entire realms rests upon the actions of one person's decision, good or bad, right or wrong, big or small, can unwittingly change the world.But history can be quite the slattern. One never knows who that person is, where he might be, or what decision he might male.It is almost enough to make me believe in destiny.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
21UndatedI've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
22UndatedYou do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
23Undated...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse, just to occupy my thoughts, but he was suffering enough without being forced to endure Dickens, even by proxy.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
24UndatedKitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.Jim Butcher / quote ↗
