It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.

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I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

Harry, " Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

I have a bad habit of wolfing down things that catch my eye.

The winds have a force so terrific as to eclipse anything previously known in the world. We have found the kingdom of blizzards. We have come to an accursed land.

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.

The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean.

You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone.

There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?