But once you put all the stupid things I do aside, I’m really not all that interesting. I like reading, staying home, going on walks with my dog—it’s like I’m already a retiree. Who wants to hear abou...
Deosil,
Dressed in black slacks and a grey silk shirt, and
Duty was a cold and barren shelter for a wounded spirit.
Except that Morgan’s face was too pinched and thin to pull off the look. Your point being? I did my best to keep from looking nervous or impressed. Truth be told, I was both. Morgan was my Warden, ass...
For you? A relic, he said. A what? An artifact, Mister Dresden. An antique possessed by the Church for several centuries.
Guard glowered at me in silence, of course. It was an act. No one could resist my bluff and manly charisma. In his heart of hearts, he wanted to be friends with me. I just knew it.
Guru in the Ukraine,
Hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut.
He doesn’t believe in using surgically altered . . . uh . . . My face heated up. Murphy was probably my best friend, but she was still a girl, and a gentleman just doesn’t say some words in front of a...
Her look dared me to make some kind of chivalrous commentary. I didn’t, and she didn’t break my nose, by way of fair exchange.
His scent like leather and fresh wind,
In the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway.
Working for
It would only take one dummy to kill us all, and we had four hundred and ninety-nine to spare.
It—I was pretty much equipped, by experience and inclination, for mayhem.
Life isn’t simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you’re in the thick of things, sometimes it’s hard for us to tell. You didn’t do what you did for your own benefi...
Make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is.
Maybe
Myself under control.
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