Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher is an American author best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He is also the author of the Codex Alera series, and the Cinder Spires series. Butcher was born in Independence, Missouri, in 1971. He is the youngest of three children, having two older sisters. He lives in Independence, MO, and has one son...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 October 1971
CountryUnited States of America
may stones bullets
Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.
evil confusing whole
You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
sleep worship
Sleep is God. Go worship.
gun hands ideas
You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.
littles impossible unimaginable
The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.
rain eye buckets
The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean.
running courage fear
Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.
heart forever darkness
Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?
mean worry stories
Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.
mean wicked bob
No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.
trying pay heroism
Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
suicide feel-better coward
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.
pigs noses cows
Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.
sorry book dark
I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.