Jim Butcher Quotes

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.

Truth is often attended with danger

Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

There's action only if there is danger.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

The leaks can kill you.

Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

I'm afraid this man will kill me some day.

I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.