It isn’t enough to stand up and fight darkness. You’ve got to stand apart from it, too. You’ve got to be different from it.
In for a sheep, in for a gargant.
I... drew out the gun I kept at home, a great big old Dirty Harry Callahan number that weighed about seventy-five thousand pounds.
I will not live in a realm where calculations of power supersede justice and law - regardless of how inconvenient that may be to the Crown.
I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.
I know how you feel, I said. You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always h...
I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer fr...
I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi.
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.
I gritted my teeth and got out of Butters’s car,
I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done. I turned around and ran like hell.
Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.
Holy shit, I breathed. Hellhounds.Harry, Michael said sternly. You know I hate it when you swear.You're right. Sorry. Holy shit, I breathed, heckhounds.
Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
Hell’s bells. I don’t call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks.
Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There's a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, galvanizes you into action, power, motion. There's heavy, leaden fear that com...
Don't the Lord, Harry. It's disrespectful.
Come with me if you want to live.
Bridget blinked once. Books do not have souls, sir. Those who write them do, Ferus said. They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential...
Better the enemy you know than the enemy you don’t.