{"author":"Jim Butcher","author_id":"Jim+Butcher","total_quotes":322,"quotes":[{"text":"I sidestepped the vampire's rush, and drove my half of the former blasting rod down at its back, Buffy-like.Maybe it works better on television.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["buffy","harry-dresden","vampires"],"id":459,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["evil","harry-dresden","humor"],"id":1669,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean, when you think about it, jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane, it defies the gravity of an entire planet by exploiting a loophole with air pressure, and it flies across distances that would take months or years to cross by any means of travel that has been significant for more than a century or three. You hurtle above the earth at enough speed to kill you instantly should you bump into something, and you can only breathe because someone built you a really good tin can that has seams tight enough to hold in a decent amount of air. Hundreds of millions of man-hours of work and struggle and research, blood, sweat, tears, and lives have gone into the history of air travel, and it has totally revolutionized the face of our planet and societies.But get on any flight in the country, and I absolutely promise you that you will find someone who, in the face of all that incredible achievement, will be willing to complain about the drinks.The drinks, people.That was me on the staircase to Chicago-Over-Chicago. Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan far below. Yes, I was using a legendary and enchanted means of travel to transcend the border between one dimension and the next, and on my way to an epic struggle between ancient and elemental forces.But all I could think to say, between panting breaths, was, 'Yeah. Sure. They couldn’t possibly have made this an escalator.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["commonplace","discontent","magic","plane","remarkable","wonder"],"id":1747,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"You already beat yourself up for enough things that aren't your fault. People who care don't want to add to that.' He paused, and then added gently, 'But you assumed it was about you.' I finished the beer and sighed. 'Arrogance,' I said.'I feel stupid.' 'Good,' Michael said. 'It's good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["arrogance","assumption","feeling-stupid"],"id":2184,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["humor","thomas-raith","vanity"],"id":3563,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["fire","good-times","harry-dresden","shindig"],"id":5287,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan far below. Yes, I was using a legendary and enchanted means of travel to transcend the border between one dimension and the next, and on my way to an epic struggle between ancient and elemental forces.But all I could think to say, between panting breaths, was, 'Yeah. Sure. They couldn't possibly have made this an escalator.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["funny","jim-butcher","sarcasm","summer-knight"],"id":6767,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["harry-dresden","humor","religion"],"id":9961,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["harry-dresden","humor"],"id":9988,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["run","running"],"id":12368,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":322,"pages":33,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}