{"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":"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":"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":"Magic. It can get a guy killed.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["dresden-files","harry-dresden","magic"],"id":27109,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["harry-dresden","humor","wizard"],"id":33627,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"Like I said, magic comes from life, and especially from emotions. They're a source of the same intangible energy that everyone can feel when an autumn moon rises and fills you with a sudden sense of bone-deep excitement, or when the first warm breeze of spring rushes past your face, full of the scents of life, and drowns you in a sudden flood of unreasoning joy. The passion of mighty music that brings tears to your eyes, and the raw, bubbling, infectious laughter of small children at play, the bellowing power of a stadium full of football fans shouting 'Hey!' in time to that damned song—they're all charged with magic.My magic comes from the same places. And maybe from darker places than that. Fear is an emotion, too. So is rage. So is lust. And madness. I'm not a particularly good person. I'm no Charles Manson or anything, but I'm not going to be up for canonization either. Though in the past, I think maybe I was a better person than I am today. In the past I hadn't seen so many people hurt and killed and terrorized by the same kind of power that damn well should have been making the world a nicer place, or at the least staying the hell away from it. I hadn't made so many mistakes back then, so many shortsighted decisions, some of which had cost people their lives. I had been sure of myself. I had been whole.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["harry-dresden","magic"],"id":34608,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["harry-dresden","humor","karrin-murphy","women"],"id":35770,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"You need to know where to go,' Sanya said.'Yes,''And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance.''Yes,' I said....'There is, I think, humour here which does not translate well from English into sanity.''That's pretty rich coming from the agnostic Knight of the Cross with a holy Sword who takes his orders from an archangel.' I said.- Harry Dresden \u0026 Sanya, Changes, Jim Butcher.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["fantasy","harry-dresden","magic","paranormal","wizards"],"id":51044,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":121,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}