I used to think I loved it. But now I realize that it’s just dependency.
I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.
I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them...
I gritted my teeth and got out of Butters’s car,
Hell's bells, irony blows.
As I walked toward the front door, a little motion to the left caught my eye. Jenny Sells stood in the hallway, a silent wraith. She regarded me with luminous green eyes, like her mother’s, like the d...
All right. Tell me what I'm looking at.From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, A giant pair of cartoon lips.I muttered a curse an...
The cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse, just to occupy my thoughts, but he was suffering enough without b...
You're in America now, I said. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.
We still hadn’t learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you’re just going to get hurt again. But...
Try not to look like that, Ascher said under breath, after we were in the elevator.Like what? I asked.Like you're expecting ninjas to leap out of the trash cans. This is a party.Everyone knows there's...
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. Crane
This isn’t going to work, Justine murmured. It is going to work , I told her, keeping my tone confident. We’ll breeze right in. The Rack will be with us. Justine glanced at me with an arched eyebrow....
They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden. He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces t...
There are thousands of names for them, in every culture—mana, psychic energy, totem, juju, chi, bioethereal power, the Force, the soul. It’s an incredibly complex system of interweaving energy that in...
The world seems dark and ugly sometimes. But there are still good things in it. And good people.
The stupid part is that he isn't interested in... in getting serious. We get along. We have fun together. For him, that's enough. And it's so stupid for me to get hung up on him.
The best magic comes from the inside.
The Carpenters had a threshold more solid and extensive than the Great Wall of China. I would not be in the least bit surprised if you could see it from space.
Thank God for wisecracks.