I just wouldn’t be safe from myself. I wouldn’t be safe from the loathing I would feel, using a tool made of life’s essence, its energy, to bring an end to life. Magic was more than just an energy sou...
I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.
I hate it when the real world ignores a perfectly logical, rational assumption.
I had three days to screw over Nicodemus Archleone and his crew and get this thing out of my head, without getting myself or my friend killed while I did it.
I had never much believed in God. Well, that’s not quite true. I believed that there was a God, or something close enough to it to warrant the name—if there were demons, there had to be angels, right?...
I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.
I glanced at Mac as though to appeal for help. Mac ignored me. Mac doesn’t take sides. Mac is wise.
I flicked a comb through my wet hair, for all the good it would do, and said, How do I look?Mostly human, she said.That's what I was going for.
I finished the beer and sighed. Arrogance, I said. I feel stupid. Good, Michael said. It’s good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.
I can’t tell you how many jobs I’ve done without a hitch since the last time I saw you, Dresden. You walk through the door and everything goes to hell. That’s embroidered on my towels, actually, I sai...
I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled...
I am somewhat proud of this, Mab's cold voice said. To be sure, the White Christ never suffered so long or so terribly as did this traitor. Three days on a tree. Hardly enough time for a prelude. When...
How busy are you today?Oh, he [Thomas] mused. I don't know. I mean, I've got to get a new shirt now.After that, I asked, would you like to help me save the city? If you don't already have plans.He sno...
How are you going to talk to someone who has no idea? Grimm said, nodding. How can you explain something you can’t find words for? How can you get someone else to understand something for which they h...
Hi, God, it’s me, Harry. Please don’t turn me into a pillar of salt.
He’s being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven, Thomas said. I figured he couldn’t jigger his way out of a bunch of steel, and it would give him something to think about before w...
Hebbity bedda, I said, by way of attempting a greeting. My mouth had gone rather numb, and my tongue felt like a lead weight. Jussa hangonna sayke hee. Fix jumped up and down, pointing at me, his voic...
He's Black Council, I said.Or maybe stupid, Ebenezar countered.I thought about it. Not sure which is scarier.Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted v...
He reached out a hand to the middle head of the dog and scratched it beneath the chin. One of the beast’s rear legs began to thump rapidly against the floor. It sounded like something you’d hear comin...
Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had be...