I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn’t roar. But it sort of growled...
The mad rarely know that they are mad. It’s the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.
I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.
My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That’s what friends do.
Ease off the martyr throttle.
Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.
Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold – Athena heading out on a Friday night.
It doesn’t make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It’s what you do with it that matters.
I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.
Yeah, they look great, but that isn’t a fantasy come true, Harry. That’s a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.
People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain’t so.
Sometimes it isn’t easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn’t turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.
I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.
Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.
Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.
I like dogs. They give Mister something to snack on.
If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn’t burned down a building in ages.
The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.
Thank God for imminent doomsday.
All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I’m Harry Dresden. I’m the new Winter Knight.