Something like this will test you like nothing else, Mac said. You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you...
Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.
Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone el...
Nipple erection on command—now that’s method acting. Oh,
My wallet was getting even more anorexic than usual. At this rate I wouldn't be able to afford to protect mankind from the perils of black magic. Hells bells, that would be really embarrassing.
Marcone's scum, but he's his own scum -Harry Dresden
Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts...
It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stai...
It only means what you decide it means.
In Chicago, you can’t swing a cat without hitting an Irish pub (and angering the cat), but McAnally’s place stands out from the crowd.
I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.
I nodded and sipped my own. Wow. Mac’s beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy.
I held my hand up, frowning. Wait a minute. Where did you say this thing was stolen from?The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist. Father Vincent said.In Northern Italy. I said.He nodded.In Turin, to b...
He had no frame of reference, and couldn’t read—most faeries were studiously averse to print.
He fell into step beside me and we both got into the — he got in the red door. I got in the white one, and we peered out over the grey hood[...]
Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan?...
Harry Dresden—I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day.
Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.
An is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!
You, Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you simply go away.