Jim Butcher Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. - Did you really save the world ?...- Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot. Blood Rites

2. A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course. Blood Rites

3. Ack!" I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me. Changes

4. All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. Summer Knight

5. Are you always a smartass?'Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep. Blood Rites

6. Beside me, Molly rolled her shoulders in a few jerky motions and pushed at her hair in fitful little gestures. She tugged at her well-tattered skirts, and grimaced at her boots. "Can you see if there’s any mud on them?" I paused to consider her for a second. Then I said, "You have two tattoos showing right now, and you probably used a fake ID to get them. Your piercings would set off any metal detector worth the name, and you’re featuring them in parts of your anatomy your parents wish you didn’t yet realize you had. You’re dressed like Frankenhooker, and your hair has been dyed colors I previously thought existed only in cotton candy. I turned to face the door again. I wouldn’t waste time worrying about a little mud on the boots. Proven Guilty

7. Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words. Blood Rites

8. 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. Small Favor

9. Da. This is going very well already."Thomas barked out a laugh. "There are seven of us against the Red King and his thirteen most powerful nobles, and it's going well?"Mouse sneezed."Eight," Thomas corrected himself. He rolled his eyes and said, "And the psycho death faerie makes it nine.""It is like movie," Sanya said, nodding. "Dibs on Legolas.""Are you kidding?" Thomas said. "I'm obviously Legolas. You're . . ." He squinted thoughtfully at Sanya and then at Martin. "Well. He's Boromir and you're clearly Aragorn.""Martin is so dour, he is more like Gimli." Sanya pointed at Susan. "Her sword is much more like Aragorn's.""Aragorn wishes he looked that good," countered Thomas."What about Karrin?" Sanya asked."What--for Gimli?" Thomas mused. "She is fairly--""Finish that sentence, Raith, and we throw down," said Murphy in a calm, level voice."Tough," Thomas said, his expression aggrieved. "I was going to say 'tough.' "As the discussion went on--with Molly's sponsorship, Mouse was lobbying to claim Gimli on the basis of being the shortest, the stoutest, and the hairiest--"Sanya," I said. "Who did I get cast as?""Sam," Sanya said.I blinked at him. "Not . . . Oh, for crying out loud, it was perfectly obvious who I should have been."Sanya shrugged. "It was no contest. They gave Gandalf to your godmother. You got Sam. Changes

10. Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!

11. Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. White Night

12. Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time. Mean Streets

13. Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle. Storm Front

14. Hell's bells, irony blows. Blood Rites

15. Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells. Blood Rites

16. Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. Dead Beat

17. Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave. Skin Game

18. How long have you been a Wiccan?''A what?''A pagan. A witch.''I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.'Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?''Wizard has a Z'He looked at me blankly.'No one appreciates me.' I muttered. Death Masks

19. I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass. Dead Beat

20. I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven. Summer Knight

21. I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point. Grave Peril

22. I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you. Vignette

23. I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry. My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

24. I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland. Turn Coat

25. I realized then what had happened.She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into great, gaunt, long-legged hounds.Wonderful!" Lea said, pirouetting upon one toe, laughing. "Come, children!" And she leapt off into the jungle, nimble and swift as a doe.A bunch of us dogs stood around for a moment, just sort of staring at one another.And Mouse said, in what sounded to me like perfectly understandable English, "That bitch. Changes

26. I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire. Grave Peril

27. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts. Storm Front

28. I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts. Storm Front

29. I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits. Grave Peril

30. I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent. Dead Beat