I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren’t a twinkle in your great-grandcestor’s eyes. I think I know what I’m doing.
Do you have a little white dress? I’ve had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.
This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.
Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.
At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.
God isn’t about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He’s all about you making choices – exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won’t gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.
You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?
Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!
Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.
Vanity, thy name is vampire.
Because a sound tree doesn’t have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you.
Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn’t change your heart. We’re all human. We’re all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.
I’ve always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.
I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.
Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way.
People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.
I’m sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.
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 courses of action.
I’m so pretty, it’s hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.