Quote

Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.

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
Car
Offers
Sweetheart
Anyone
Thief
Better
Thieves
Something
Stealing
Offer
Worried
Rate

More quotes by Jim Butcher

Image
Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.
Jim Butcher
Image
Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.
Jim Butcher
Image
Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
Jim Butcher
Image
Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.
Jim Butcher
Image
My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?
Jim Butcher
Image
I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.
Jim Butcher
Image
When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.
Jim Butcher
Image
Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly,” I said. “Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking.” She sniffed. “This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It’s okay to like both.” “Blasphemy and lies,” I said.
Jim Butcher
Image
There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
Jim Butcher
Image
When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.
Jim Butcher
Image
You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.
Jim Butcher
Image
A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.
Jim Butcher
Image
If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.
Jim Butcher
Image
A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.
Jim Butcher
Image
He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.
Jim Butcher
Image
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.
Jim Butcher
Image
Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.
Jim Butcher
Image
It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?
Jim Butcher
Image
There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.
Jim Butcher
Image
Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.
Jim Butcher