Harry-dresden Quotes

Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for hi...

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing w...

You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap," he said pr...

I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd sett...

Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is t...

A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubu...

Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have ...

Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine an...

So we get a plan," I said. "Any suggestions?""Blow up the building," Kincaid said without looking up...

I sidestepped the vampire's rush, and drove my half of the former blasting rod down at its back, Buf...

Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells.

Hell's bells, irony blows.

Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with ...

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other ...

You're such a cynic," Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute.

Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, co...

I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that w...

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like th...

She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to hav...

Maybe you know the monsters, Martin," Murphy said quietly. "But I know the guy who stops them. And i...

I realized then what had happened.She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into great, gaunt,...

Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry."I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildin...

Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this t...

Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare ...

Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.Gggrrrr rawf arrrgggr...

Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good...

Ack!" I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

Da. This is going very well already."Thomas barked out a laugh. "There are seven of us against the R...

I'm not a Wiccan. I'm not big on churches of any kind, despite the fact that I've spoken, face-to-fa...

You need to know where to go,' Sanya said.'Yes,''And you are going to consult four large pizzas for ...

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you ar...

There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept...

If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there is...

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kil...

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have en...

You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You...

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.'...

I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell....

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger aroun...

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through ...

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it u...

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are me...

Like I said, magic comes from life, and especially from emotions. They're a source of the same intan...

We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" "No. And d...

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not eve...

It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does n...

Do you really think you can win?''Yeah. Hell, Ortega is only the third or fourth most disturbing thi...

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue.This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin...

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you someho...

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at t...

How long have you been a Wiccan?''A what?''A pagan. A witch.''I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out...

They don't make morgues with windows. In fact, if the geography allows for it, they hardly ever make...

It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thin...

Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-rig...

I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part o...

Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their so...

Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That's why black...

Technically,' I said, "I'm not breaking any of the Laws of Magic. I'm not robbing you of your will, ...

There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

Pain isn’t a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain — physi...

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

Epic sex?" I sputtered. "By what standards, precisely, is sex judged to be epic?""And tons and tons ...

But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, an...

I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dr...

Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There's a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning throug...

I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth...

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

I love you." Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmother's spell frayed as though the ...

Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an...

I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fe...

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of inten...

Beside me, Molly rolled her shoulders in a few jerky motions and pushed at her hair in fitful little...

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any...

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employe...

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning....

Dresden’s not gone,” I said. I touched a hand lightly to my brow. “He’s here.” I touched Will’s bare...

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it tha...

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

I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters an...

I’ve had a tense couple of days. And I’ve got to tell you, burning someone’s face off sounds like a ...

That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture referen...

You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!

A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There ...

Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?''To where they treat me like royalty,' I said.'We're goin...

You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black t...

Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take...

... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip a...

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

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place wh...

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

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

I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.