My double snorted. That’s good. That really is, the banter thing. I can’t do the banter very well. Maybe that’s why you’re in charge. Of course, if I was in charge more often, you’d get laid a lot mor...
My laboratory, I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with ‘mwoo-hah-hah-hah-hahhhhhh’?
My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I'm the only openly practicing professional...
My name is Harry Dresden, I said.Fitz stumbled. Holy shit, he said. Like... Harry Dresden? The professional wizard?The one and only.He recovered his pace and shook his head. I heard you were dead.Well...
Why is it that you’ve never got the least goddamned clue what’s happening inside your own head. Have you ever noticed this trend? Doesn’t it bug you sometimes?
No one was standing in the shadows smoking a cigarette or looking about with a shifty-eyed gaze. I couldn't see anyone quickly hiding a bloody knife behind his back or twirling a moustache, either. Th...
No, Bob. Just no. For crying out loud. She's seventeen. Better move quick, then, Bob said. Before anything starts to droop. Taste of perfection while you can, that's what I always say.
Not sure. Using it is trickier than most people think, I said. You've got to keep it from drying out, and you've got to get it undiluted. It was raining, so if someone wanted my blood, they'd have had...
Nothing is truly safe in this world—and that being the case, why worry about threats that have not yet appeared? Far wiser to make what preparations one could, face trouble as it arose, and be happy i...
Now that I’ve got this to keep me safe off the island, I said very quietly, what’s to stop me from having Alfred drop you into a cell right this second, and solving my problems myself? I am, Mab said....
Now, Lily said, her burning voice bitter. Now you give me a choice. The ministar flared to life in her palm again. Thus do I choose, you son of a bitch. Knight of Winter, burn and die.
Okay, I said to Karrin. Let's move.Uh, she asked, without turning her head. move where?The island, I said.Harry, this is a motorcycle.It'll work, I said. Look at it.Karrin jerked as she noted the appe...
Okay, I said. I'm going to do something I know you both hate. I'm going to get direct. And I'm going to get direct answers from you, answers that convince me that you aren't trying to hide anything fr...
Olympian, I should think, from the colors and the fur trim of his coat, Master Ferus put in. Olympian and, it would seem, possessed of a fury. Which is funny, if you know enough history.
Once you begin to mass-manufacture anything, by the very nature of the process, you lose the sense of personal attachment you might have to something made by hand.
One more tip, kids. If you had any real talent, the air would practically have been on fire when you got ready to throw down. But you losers don’t have enough magic between you to turn cereal into bre...
One rather thick volume was titled Means of Execution Through the Ages, and was placed with an elegant balance of nonchalance and availability at the eye level of anyone entering the room. As threats...
One time, when we'd been discussing martial arts, Murphy told me that eventually, no-one can teach you anything more about them. Once you reach that state of knowledge, the only way to keep learning a...
Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters.Run away.
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped so...
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