Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.
I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab’s bed. (My li...
It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles,...
I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago, I said at once. Elvii? Marcone inquired.The plural would be Elvises, I guess, I said. But if I say that too often, I start muttering...
A ship's captain was her master and the right hand of God in Heaven Himself, and concerned with matters of such grave importance that minor issues like food for the mortals in his command were entirel...
Wait. You work for me?I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.
Insecurity, thy name is teenager.
Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.Gggrrrr rawf arrrgggrrrrarrrr, I said.Mouse gave me an impatient glance, and somehow--I don't know if it was something in...
Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.
Please, help me. Young werewolves in love. I turned to walk into the house, moving carefully.I had never much believed in God. Well, that's not quite true. I believed that there was a God, or somethin...
Star Trek? I asked her. Really? What? she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly, I said. Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This i...
Thank God for imminent doomsday.
That's arrogance, Harry. he said, gently. On a level so deep, you don't even realize it exists. And do you know why it's there? No? I asked. He smiled again. Because you have set a higher standard fo...
But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.
It’s boring.Oh, I said. I rubbed at my jaw. You think I should have gone four-color?Bob stared at me for a second and said, I have nightmares about Hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to ha...
I realized then what had happened.She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into great, gaunt, long-legged hounds.Wonderful! Lea said, pirouetting upon one toe, laughing. Come, children! And she...
Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out hadn’t shown up or spoken to me for more than a year.
Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.
Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan far bel...
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