I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd settle for knowing what her voice sounded like. I put a hand on her shoulder. Trite but true—you don't k...
Murphyonic?Sure, Butters said. You exude a Murphyonic field. Anything that can go wrong does.
The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least...
I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.
I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you. She looked up at me calmly. Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That...
Shame, child, is for those who fail to live up to the ideal of what they believe they should be. She waved her hand. It was shame that drove me to my queen, to beseech her aid. Her long, delicate fing...
It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are, Benedict said, his tone amused. It works particularly well against those who aren't as intelligent as you in the first pl...
Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.
The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the r...
It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.
It's a shadelight, Grimm said quietly. Some of my men put one up whenever I lose a member of the crew. To light his shade's way back to his bunk, so he can rest.A bit heathen of them, I suppose, Bened...
Faeries like pizza? I asked.Oh, Harry, Toot said breathlessly. Haven't you ever had pizza before?Of course I have, I said.Toot looked wounded. And you didn't share?
Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.
Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.
Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn’t make them any less hideous. They’re always just a little too cold. It always smells just a lit...
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you
Run away. Me and Monty Python.
Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
Like life is short, he said. Like you don’t know when it’s going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can’t ever be said.
Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory.
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