Kord sees power as something to satisfy his desires, instead of a tool to protect and serve the people beholden to him. It’s a stupid attitude, and it will eventually get him killed—but until then it...
None of us had known the layout to Marcone’s place, so we’d chosen to approach from the rear, on general principles of sneakiness.
My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk.
Sometimes you wake up, and there's a little voice inside your head that tells you that today is a special day. For a lot of kids, it sometimes happens on their birthday, and always on Christmas mornin...
I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.
My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me...
The Queen smiled with the tiniest twitch of a single corner of her mouth. Why should I do that?Because I'm coming, Octavian's image said, very quietly, for you.
I’m dealing with a lot of scary things, she said. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. Or you become like Martin. Shut off from everything and everyone. Tr...
Me and the Blue Beetle kick ass. In a four-cylinder kind of way, but it still gets kicked.
So many terrible things are done for love, Mab’s voice said. For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, a...
There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
More trouble in Faerie. Bigger trouble in Faerie. And I'd be willing to bet dollars to navel lint that I knew exactly which stupid son of a bitch the Council would expect to start poking his nose arou...
I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn’t good business.
It’s easy to do the right thing when it doesn’t cost you. Not as easy to do the right thing when your back is to the wall. Fitz
I hate dreams like this, I said. There’s no plot—just random weird things happening. I get enough of that when I’m awake.
The Legions have a long tradition, boys. You march hard and fast and show up in places where no one expects you—and then you go to work. He grinned. And you do it all carrying a hundred pounds of gear...
I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me.
Lady Aquitaine sighed. Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum.
There is more to the world than what a review board publishes about an officer or aeronaut, Miss Lancaster. Guard. Your. Tongue.
They're always too strong. There's always more of them, and they're always too strong.
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