Michael Carpenter Quotes

“I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“Hell’s bells. I don’t call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks.”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

“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, Death Masks

“Mister Sunshine. The archangel Uriel.

His gaze was focused exclusively on Michael, and his expression was anguished.

'You need not do this,' he said, his voice low, urgent. 'You have given enough and more than enough already.'

'Uriel,' Michael said, nodding his head deeply. 'I know.'

The angel held up his hand. 'If you do this, I can take no action to protect you,' he said. 'And this creature will be free to inflict upon you such pain as even you could not imagine.'

A sudden, sunny smile lit Michael’s face. 'My friend ...'

Uriel blinked, and rocked slightly, as if the words had struck him with physical force.

'... thank you,' Michael continued. 'But I’m not the Carpenter who set the standard.”
― Jim Butcher, Skin Game