I’ll be patient, I said. But not forever.
I’d fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.
It’s what you do with the want that matters.
It’s easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back.
It’s easy to do the right thing when it doesn’t cost you. Not as easy to do the right thing when your back is to the wall. Fitz
Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden
It wasn’t until later that I would realize that I was babbling a chant of Ubriacha, ubrius, ubrium, to the Peanuts theme music.
It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the ph...
It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.I turned around and ran like hell.
If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.
I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.
I'm... I felt a little ill. You're saying... I'm pregnant?My double threw up his arms. Finally, he gets it.In years and years and years of experience as a wizard, I'd dealt with concepts, formulae, an...
I'm trying to be diplomatic. The wisdom of my ass is well-known. If I didn't lip off to them, after shooting my mouth off to faerie queens and Vampire Courts--plural, Courts--demigods and demon lords,...
I'm not a doctor, Butters said.We'd done this dance several times. You are the Mighty Butters, I said. You can do anything.
I took a big dose of Tylenol the original, since I didn't have my Tylenol 3 or its lesser-known, short-lived cousin, Tylenol Two: The Pain Strikes Back.
I looked, noted details mechanically, and quietly shut the door on the part of my head that had started screaming the second I entered the room.
I knew I didn't have much of a chance of getting away from that swarm of fae piranha, but it was an infinitely larger chance than I would have if I stayed in the car and burned to death. Hell's bells,...
I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.
I did tell you, I said. I told you at Mac's that I'd give you a ride home, but I had to run an errand first.Thomas scowled. An *errand* is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or somet...
I did absolutely nothing. Carefully.