As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'? The skull howled with laughter. You just got your ass handed to you by a ?I wouldn't say they handed me my ass, I said.Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, a...
As far as I can tell, all cats [can see ghosts.] But they aren't terribly impressed with the fact that we're dead and still present. One rarely gets a reaction from them.
As I pulled into the parking lot, I reflected that odds were that not a lot of clandestine meetings involving mystical assassination, theft of arcane power, and the balance of power in the realms of t...
Anyway, my office is small - one room, but on the corner, with a couple of windows. The sign on the door reads, simply, HARRY DRESDEN, WIZARD. Just inside the door is a table, covered with pamphlets w...
Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word.
Answer my question, Dresden,' Nicodemus growled. 'What is that?''A precaution against getting stuck in deep snow,' I said. 'He's training to be a Saint Bernard.''Excuse me?' Nicodemus said.I mimed cov...
Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wiza...
Andi's eyes widened. Bob. . .is it really him?Yes, but he works for the bad guys now, Bob said. It's probably safest to shoot him.
And you think you deserve to join the ranks of real Knights of the Sword, Nicodemus said, his voice smooth and confident. You battered, scarred, broken thing. In my centuries I’ve learned exactly what...
And then there she was, a girl of elegant height, perhaps eighteen or nineteen years of age—gawky and coltish, all long legs and arms, but with the promise of stunning beauty to add graceful curves to...
And the sex, I said. It will be frequent. Possibly violent. You’ll be screaming. Neighbors will make phone calls.
And the fae have a way of making sure that further bargains only get you in deeper, instead of into the clear. Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there’s evil for you.
And suddenly a shaft of blinding silver-white light three feet long sprang from the broken hilt of Fidelacchius and shone in the first golden light of that day’s dawn, humming with the full power of t...
And just because I don't go to bed with everything with a vagina doesn't mean I'm repressed.
All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.
All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative cour...
All hospital emergency rooms have the same feel to them. They’re all decorated in the same dull, muted tones and softened edges, which are meant to be comforting and aren’t. They all have the same sme...
Ah! Journeyman cackled... Finally! Carefully now, man. If you crack one of my new crystals, I'll hoist you up on a spike! Grimm cleared his throat calmly. Journeyman squinted over his shoulder. Ah, he...
Against anything human, more than one round to the head would be overkill: When the merely mortal goes up against the supernatural, there's no such as overkill
After the way I left, I suddenly find myself wanting very much to go home. But . . . it won’t be the same when I get back. Will it? It will be the same, Grimm said. You’re the one who has changed.