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

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

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.

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

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.

Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm. "It's green!" Nico said with delight.

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.