Quotes by Jim Butcher

Love is another kind of power, which shouldnt surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.

You can have everything in the world, but if you dont have love, none of it means crap, he said promptly. Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love, I finished. Thats from the Bible. First Corinthians, chapter thirteen, Thomas confirmed. I paraphrased. Father makes all of us memorize that passage. Like when parents put those green yucky-face stickers on the poisonous cleaning products under the kitchen sink.

Sure, wed faced some things as children that a lot of kids dont. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadnt learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good youre just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. Theres the little empty pain of leaving something behind - gradutaing, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. Theres the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expecations. Theres the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didnt give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life they grow and learn. Theres the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens. And if youre very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realized that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life.Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead dont feel it.Pain is a part of life. Sometimes its a big part, and sometimes it isnt, but either way, its a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that youre alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Son. Everyone dies alone. Thats what it is. Its a door. Its one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesnt mean youve got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you arent alone on the other side.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

There are things you cant walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

It isnt good to hold on too hard to the past. You cant spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you cant see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isnt what you expected.

Therere things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.

I dont want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. Id rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves dont come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their ps and qs. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. Im in the book.

Im dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isnt about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isnt about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. Its about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. Its about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when theres not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

Are you always a smartass?Nope. Sometimes Im asleep.

We are not going to die. Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. Were not? No. And do you know why? He shook his head. Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because Im too stubborn to die. I hauled on the shirt even harder. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

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