Thomas Raith Quotes

#1. Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Jim Butcher

#2. God save me from idealists.

Jim Butcher

#3. Whether our new start was going to end in success or failure didn't cross my mind. What I did know, and know consciously, was that it was already exciting.

Maya Angelou

#4. Vanity, thy name is vampire.

Jim Butcher

#5. Never touch my brother on his fucking birthday.

Jim Butcher

#6. Play needs direction as well as work.

Elbert Hubbard

#7. Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.

Jim Butcher

#8. Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

Jim Butcher

#9. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.

Jim Butcher

#10. I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

Jim Butcher

#11. Pansy," Murphy sneered.
Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.

Jim Butcher

#12. I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

Jim Butcher

#13. I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

Vin Diesel

#14. Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute ... We're his flunkies."
"You, may be," Thomas said, sneering. "I'm his thug. I'm way higher than a flunky."
"You are high if you think I'm taking any orders from you," Molly said tartly.

Jim Butcher

#15. I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.

Jim Butcher

#16. 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.

Jim Butcher

#17. Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked.
I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different."
"Isn't she Catholic?" Thomas asked. "Don't they have a guy?

Jim Butcher

#18. Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty, but in villainy? Wherein villainous, but in all things? Wherein worthy, but in nothing?

William Shakespeare

#19. A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family. And they were my heroes.

Jim Butcher

#20. When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about ... A little tea or coffee restores them ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

Florence Nightingale

#21. Women are conditioned to give themselves away.

Sherry Argov

#22. You predicted quick victory. Now it's going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don't you know any better than that by now?

Jim Butcher