Jim Butcher Quotes

As a child I loved ghost stories.

I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

The real world is where the monsters are.

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.

You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

The barbarians come out at night.

The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.

The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.

I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh.

"It's him," I said. "Typhon." I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!

Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy and die.

I want you to feel like you're going to die.

How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Jacob Black New Moon

Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.