Jim Butcher Quotes

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

I'm sick of running away from things.

The monsters are in your own head.

No one wants to be beaten, even myself.

There's a lot of people scared of me, and I can't blame them. They call me crazy so much I think I'm starting to believe them.

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.

My own death threats have declined considerably.

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

I've always been really shy. I was always afraid of any kind of confrontation.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.