Jim Butcher

Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employees of companies and corporations who attend a mass assembly, usually in a big hotel somewhere, for the purpose of pretending to learn stuff when they are in fact enjoying a free trip somewhere, time off work, and the opportunity to flirt with strangers, drink, and otherwise indulge themselves. The first major difference between a business convention and a fan-dom convention is that fandom doesn__ bother with the pretenses. They__e just there to have a good time. The second difference is the dress code_ the ensembles at a fan convention tend to be considerably more novel.

Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.

Every soul is special. They__e all beautiful. They__e all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people are at their best, they__e acting in accordance with their soul. The ones who have gone bad don__ have bad souls. They__e just given up on keeping in touch with them.

Lady Placida smiled. __istory seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an argument could be made that you very much did earn the title.___any women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.__ady Placida laughed. __rue enough. But perhaps that is beginning to change._ She offered her hands. __t is a distinct pleasure to meet you, Steadholder.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are," Benedict said, his tone amused. "It works particularly well against those who aren't as intelligent as you in the first place.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

Didn't you read the owner's ma

I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcone inquired."The plural would be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural.

Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion.

Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help. If you have not, then believe you me, it can scare the bejeezus out of you.

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.

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

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.

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.