Jim Butcher Quotes

Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.

here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

Winter in Peking is insurpassable, unless indeed it is surpassed by the other seasons in that blessed city. For Peking is a city clearly marked by the seasons, each perfect in its own way and each different from the others.

The cold never bothered me anyway.

Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.

The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

The winter has not killed usagain!

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

watch out fer these fellers around here. It ain't safe fer a pretty girl. Why, I had one just now tell me I looked like a breath of spring. Well, he didn't use them words, exactly. He said I looked like the end of a hard winter.

At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.

Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in winter, I recommend sleeping next to a man. Men are like portable heaters that snore.

Woo! It's so cold, I think we may be twin sisters now," he said through rattling teeth.

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!

What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.