Quotes From "Death Masks" By Jim Butcher

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be–even if it isn't what you expected. Jim Butcher

How long have you been a Wiccan?''A what?'' A pagan. A witch.'' I'm not a witch, ' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.' Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?'' Wizard has a Z'He looked at me blankly.' No one appreciates me.' I muttered. Jim Butcher

They don't make morgues with windows. In fact, if the geography allows for it, they hardly ever make morgues above the ground. I guess it's partly because it must be eisier to refrigerate a bunch of coffin-sized chambers in a room insulated by the earth. But that can't be all there is to it. Under the earth means a lot more than relative altitude. It's where dead things fit. Graves are under the earth. So are Hell, Gehenna, Hades, and a dozen other reported afterlives. Maybe it says somthing about people. Maybe for us, under the earth is a subtle and profound statement. Maybe ground level provides us with a kind of symbolic boundary marker, an artificial construct that helps us remember that we are alive. Mabye it helps us push death's shadow back from our lives. I live in a basement apartment and like it. What does that say about me? Probably that I overanalyze things. Jim Butcher

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart. Jim Butcher

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. Jim Butcher

...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me.' I'm not dead! ' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead! '- Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher Jim Butcher

Do you really think you can win?'' Yeah. Hell, Ortega is only the third or fourth most disturbing thing I've tangled with today.'' But even if you do win, what does it change?'' Me getting kiilled now. That way, I get to be killed later tonight instead.'- Susan Rodriguez & Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher Jim Butcher

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself. Jim Butcher

It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs. Jim Butcher

Sleep is God. Go worship. Jim Butcher

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone. Jim Butcher

Internet, " she said sagely. "Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge. Jim Butcher

Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary. Jim Butcher

Do you know what I think?" Marcone said." You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him."" Yes." I drew my gun. "Okay. Jim Butcher