You can’t photograph anything really supernatural, I pointed out. The energies around things like that will mess up cameras.
You can’t change what has already happened. But you choose what to do next. Which means that you only cross over to the dark side if you choose to do it.
You can be such an asshole, Dresden, I swear.
Wizardry aside, it’s tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats.
Wisps of arctic blue and green and purple buzzed and whirled within those sharp spikes, sending out a wild coruscation of coloured light. The aurora was mesmerizing and blinding at the same time, and...
Which just goes to show that my cat has considerably more sense than me.
Where germs go?Sunrise, I said. Poof.Butter's voice sounded bewildered. Vampire germs?The tiny capes are a dead giveaway.
Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise.
When people come to the only professional wizard in the Chicago phone book for help, they’re one of two things: desperate or smart. Very rarely are they both.
When I look into someone’s eyes, into their soul, their innermost being, they can see mine in return—the things I had done, the things I was willing to do, the things I was capable of doing.
Whatever the reason, I’m happy to remember the time we had.
What's the point in answering, Warden? It's obvious that you've already tried and convicted me. If I tell you I am involved, you will believe me guilty. If I tell you I am not involved, you will belie...
What we hadn’t known about, back then, was pain. Sure, we’d faced some things as children that a lot of kids don’t. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for...
What had changed things? What had made the difference?She had. All by herself.
What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what’s coming around. He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. And sometimes you are what’s coming around.
What do you need? Vadderung asked.Advice, I said. If the price is right.And what do you think a sufficient price would be?Lucy charges a nickel.Ah, Vadderung said. But Lucy is a psychiatrist. You real...
We’re all the hero of our own story.
Were traditions rational, they’d be procedures.
Well, Antillus Raucus said. There it is. Brilliant last words, Phrygius said beside him. We’ll put them on your memorium. Right next to, ‘He died stating the obvious.’ Ah, Lord Placida said. It begin...
We're always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us d...