Jim Butcher citáty

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„Jsi takový cynik, řekla Molly.
Myslím, že cynici jsou hraví a roztomilí."“

“My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.”

“That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.”

“There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.”

“Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!”

“Carlos Ramirez: Everyone else who lets me ride on their dinosaur calls me Carlos.”

“How long have you been a Wiccan?'
'A what?'
'A pagan. A witch.'
'I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.'
Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?'
'Wizard has a Z'
He looked at me blankly.
'No one appreciates me.' I muttered.”

“Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.”

“‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.”

“And thrice do I say to thee… bite me.”

“Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.”

“You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.”

“I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.”

“Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.”

“I'm 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.”

“I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.”

“Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.”

“I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.”

“I don't believe in faeries!”

“Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.”

“Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.”

“I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.”

“Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.”

“All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.”

“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.”

“I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.”

“There're 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.”

“Harry Dresden: Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”

“There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?"

"Evil's afoot."

"Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.”

“My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.”