Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That’s why black magic is so easy – it comes from lust, from fear, from things that are easy to feed and make grow. The sort I do is harder. It comes from something deeper than that, a truer and purer source – harder to tap, harder to keep, but ultimately more elegant, more powerful.

— Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher Quotes

Eventually, it’s better to go forward into it and have things settled than to huddle in terror for one second longer.

— Jim Butcher

This loud was a full-body, weapons-grade loud.

— Jim Butcher

And for a time, there was nothing else to be done. I wept. And the city burned.

— Jim Butcher

Can’t you, like, enhance these?” “No,” Gary said flatly. “Because I don’t have imaginary movie powers.

— Jim Butcher

Wizard knows what he is talking about.” “No, I really don’t,” I said. “That’s the problem.” “But you know that you do not know,” Michael said. “Which is wise.

— Jim Butcher

I felt like a bit of a jackass. When that happens, it’s an excellent idea to shut your mouth.

— Jim Butcher

My knuckles ached to meet his nose.

— Jim Butcher

Her P90, a personal defense weapon that was the bastard child of an assault rifle and a box of Belgian chocolates, was resting on the safety railing, its barrel aimed in the same general direction as where I had been standing and negotiating moments before.

— Jim Butcher

The real war happened when you weren’t looking.

— Jim Butcher

I’d been feeling sorry for myself, which is about the most use- less thing you can feel: it doesn’t do a damned thing for you. You don’t feel any better, you don’t get any better, and you’re too busy moping to do anything to actually make your life any better. There’s.

— Jim Butcher

I’m not saying pain is what defines us as human beings. But it is, in many ways, what unites us.

— Jim Butcher

The words never again mean more to some people than others.

— Jim Butcher

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

— Jim Butcher

People who are scared need to laugh, and the scarier things are, the more they need it.

— Jim Butcher

If a revolver was good enough for Indiana Jones,” I said, “it’s good enough for me.” “He was a fictional character, Harry.” Her mouth curved up in a small smile. “And he had a whip.

— Jim Butcher

Don’t borrow trouble.

— Jim Butcher

But something deep down inside me stirred, like an old warhorse who hears the sound of trumpets.

— Jim Butcher

Planet Earth isn’t a fair place. It’s unfair in a broad variety of different ways, some worse than others, but it isn’t fair. Not for anybody. And that’s pretty much the fairest thing about it.

— Jim Butcher

It’s okay to hurt. It’s not okay to fail the people who rely on me. That was my point of balance.

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If at first you don’t succeed,” Bob said cheerfully, “you probably needed a better plan to begin with.

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