Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.
Jim ButcherHarry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.
Jim ButcherIf I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.
Jim ButcherI'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.
Jim ButcherWe've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.
Jim ButcherIโve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I donโt. Iโm sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and thatโs pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days
Jim Butcher