Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish...
Handy, humans, Rowl thought. Clumsy, slow, and not always terribly bright, but they were very strong, through sheer, inarguable mass. He now saw his father's wisdom in desiring to keep a few of them...
You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard, I said. Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.
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...
We are not going to die. Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. We're not? No. And do you know why? He shook his head. Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to...
You're supposed to be a spirit of intellect. I don't understand why you're obsessed with sex.Bob's voice got defensive. It's an academic interest, Harry.Oh yeah? Well maybe I don't think it's fair to...
Epic sex? I sputtered. By what standards, precisely, is sex judged to be epic?And tons and tons of mortal simps like you used as pawns. Bob sighed happily, ignoring my question. There are no words. It...
He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan
It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that it was perfectly acceptable to teach kits to accept food from their hands as a matter of course, rath...
A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people wh...
Harry Dresden—I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day.
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.
He had no frame of reference, and couldn’t read—most faeries were studiously averse to print.
Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of times they don’t understand what’s happening. They see something they don’t like and it upsets...
Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.You? A Princess Bride quote? I croaked.What is that? she asked.
She frowned at me. You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles.Wizards don't giggle, I said, hardly able to speak. This is cackling.
You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap, he said promptly. Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love neve...
You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?
Harry waxes poetic about magic. He'll go on and on about how it comes from your feelings, and how it's a deep statement about the nature of your soul, and then he'll whip out some kind of half-divine,...
Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.
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