Dresden, he said quietly. Yeah? I didn’t tell anyone about Molly. What she tried to do to Ana. I . . . I didn’t tell. I stared at him, unable to speak. His eyes became cloudy. Do you know why I didn’t...
Dresden, she said, I cannot stress to you enough how vital it is that we avoid general hostilities, even with a relatively small power. Translation: Don’t start another war, Harry. But, she continued,...
Duty flows uphill and down. He
Everyone thinks magic is something different.
Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling...
From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before.
Fuego! shouted someone on the walls - and for a second I was hit with a little sting of insult. Someone was shouting fuego and it wasn't me.
Got it with you? I asked Butters. Are you kidding? he said, grinning. I may never put it down again. So show her, I said. You think that’s . . . you know. Okay? To show it off like that? You aren’t sh...
Grimm frowned. Ah. Um. Am I in any danger? You’re dead as a stone, man! I am? Yes. No, actually, not even remotely, but for purposes of this conversation, yes.
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Harry. That’s not how one talks to young ladies in the South.
Harry? Bob asked. Are your feet wet? And can you see the pyramids? I blinked. What? Earth to Dresden, Bob said. You are standing knee-deep in de Nile.
Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved. Bob, I said. You can’t just go around killing people. I know. That’s why you should do it. No, no. I can’t go around killing people, either. Why not? You’ve done i...
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...
He clenched his hands into fists and opened them again several times, as though strangling baby ducks.
He died in his sleep one night. An aneurysm, the doctors said. I found him, cold, smiling. Maybe he’d been dreaming of Mother when he went. And as I looked at him, I suddenly felt, for the very first...
He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, You are an untidy person. I put my hand over my heart, grinning at him. Ow.
He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally considered it the obligation of the universe to provide shelter, sustenance, and amu...
He nodded. Someone really would get suspicious if they saw you roaming around. If I need you I’ll give you a signal. What signal? I’ll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl, he said with a wag...
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...
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