Quote

Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.

Jim Butcher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Lust
Animals
Kill
Protect
Joy
Wizard
Animal
Wizards
Humans
Territory
Done
Defend

More quotes by Jim Butcher

Image
Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead, I said solemnly, and frosting of white.
Jim Butcher
Image
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.
Jim Butcher
Image
No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.
Jim Butcher
Image
I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.
Jim Butcher
Image
My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do.
Jim Butcher
Image
Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?
Jim Butcher
Image
I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.
Jim Butcher
Image
The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.
Jim Butcher
Image
Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.
Jim Butcher
Image
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 CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!
Jim Butcher
Image
...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher
Image
A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.
Jim Butcher
Image
Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?
Jim Butcher
Image
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.
Jim Butcher
Image
I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.
Jim Butcher
Image
It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
Jim Butcher
Image
I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles
Jim Butcher
Image
There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.
Jim Butcher
Image
It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.
Jim Butcher
Image
Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!
Jim Butcher