Jim Butcher Quotes

There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.

Organizers didn't make any money; their poverty was proof of their integrity.

Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.

It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered. "I know her," Ash said in a low voice. "I can't... hurt someone I know.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

We packed up all the worldly possessions we could carry with us and took the next flight to Hawaii from Washington. It took just about every cent my family had to our name just to pay the plane fare. When we arrived, we had about $15 left among us. We were really in pitiful shape. But we were together, and we were alive, and this was all that mattered.

Damned indecision and cursed pride.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward.

I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it.

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita