Harry waxes poetic about magic. He’ll go on and on about how it comes from your feelings, and how it’s a deep statement about the nature of your soul, and then he’ll whip out some kind of half-divine, half-insane philosophy he’s cobbled together from the words of saints and comic books about the importance of handling power responsibly.
They’re nice cages,” I responded. “No space around them. Nothing alive. Places like this turn a man into a gerbil. He comes home and scurries inside. Then he stays there until he’s forced to go back out to the job he has to work so that he can make the mortgage payments on this gerbil habitat.
Plan B,” I said. “Okay, right. We need a plan B. If we only had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.” Susan let out a puff of laughter, and then I turned to her, my eyes alight. “We have a great big truck,” Susan said. “Then why didn’t you list that among our assets?” I said, in a bad British accent. “Go!” Susan vanished back down the.
Kestus idly added theoretical torture to the theoretical murder, because done right, it might be funny.
Abusers like to isolate their victims. People who feel that they are completely alone tend not to fight back.
I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team.
That’s how belief works. The worse the situation is, the more a man’s belief can do to sustain him. You’ve given them something to believe in.
And here I thought global warming was due to cow farts. – Harry Dresden.
Because I know my daughter,” she said. “And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure that she pursues any given course of action is for me to forbid her to do so.
But a sick feeling had settled into me, as I looked on this darkling house, with all of its stinking lust and fear, all of its horrid hate worn openly upon it to my Sight, like a mantle of flayed human skin on the shoulders of a pretty girl with gorgeous hair, luscious lips, sunken eyes, and rotting teeth. It repulsed me and it made me afraid.
Werewolf, werewolf.” “There wolf,” Bob replied solemnly, his voice seething with a hokey accent. “There castle.
Being called “dangerous” by a cat could mean a great many things, but it was generally delivered as something of a compliment.
Sunset Point was one of those boils festering on the face of the planet: a subdivision.
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.
He’s a lawyer, he’s a priest. This does not compute. – Harry Dresden.
I’d done a bit of research on fun things you can fire out of a shotgun, and as it turns out, there’s all kinds of interesting stuff you can shoot at people. – Harry Dresden.
Call me paranoid, but there’s nothing like a murder attempt in broad daylight to make a man cautious.
I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. I’m supposed to be the Jedi. – Harry Dresden.
It’s a big universe. No one can know it all. – Harry Dresden.
And as I looked at him, I suddenly felt, for the very first time in my life, utterly, entirely alone. That something was gone that would never return, that a little hole had been hollowed out inside of me that wasn’t ever going to be filled again.