Jim C. Hines Quotes

Human ignorance has never needed help.

He seemed to think that killing was something to be done only as a last resort. It was a strange philosophy, one that would take some getting used to.

What do I do?
Tymalous Shadowstar didn’t answer.
Hello? A little help would be nice. Still nothing. It figured. There was never a god around when you needed one.

No night is so dark, no situation so dire, but the intervention of the gods cannot make it worse.

Modern fantasy is little more than juvenile escapism and anachronistic longing for a time that never existed. I’ve never understood the appeal.

Despite common belief, the goblin language did include a word for trust. It was derived from the word for trustworthy, which in the goblin tongue, was the same as the word for dead.

The royal children have skulls of granite, it’s true, but they come by that honestly.

Don’t let your newfound title worry you. Having lived among goblins and their backstabbing, treacherous ways, you’re far better prepared for politics than most.

The mistakes of the past do not excuse the mistakes of the present.

Every Porter was required to see a therapist on a regular basis. It seemed a wise precaution for people who routinely rewrote the laws of existence to suit their whims.

Goblins didn’t pray. They had no use for gods, a disinterest matched only by the gods’ disdain for goblins.

Cowardice is a far better survival trait than heroism.

She didn’t argue. That, more than anything else, told me she hadn’t fully recovered from everything she’d been through. A year ago, she would have argued with me on principle, secure in her teenage sense of immortality and invulnerability.

Young Isaac had dreamed of fame.
Young Isaac was an idiot.

This is the worst excess of conjecture and wishful thinking," snapped Jackson. "We don't know if Isaac is capable of any of this."
"He believes he is," said Bi Wei.
"I once met a woman who believed she was abducted by aliens who looked like the Teletubbies," Jackson shot back. "That doesn't make it true.