It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
We’re always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It’s stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn’t seem to slow us down.
I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren’t ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. – Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher.
The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. – Doroga.
Body or mind, heart or soul, we’re all human, and we’re supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.
Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.
The vampire’s true appearance was grotesque – but it wasn’t as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a lot worse, and some of the Elder Things could rip your mind apart just by letting you look at them.
We’re all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.
He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. – Harry Dresden describing Morgan.
Somewhere out there was a village I’d deprived of it’s idiot.
I’m amazing and studly, but I have limits.
My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.
Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.
In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.
When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better.
You killed my dog! Get your affairs in order.
Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.
Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.