A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don't let it control them. And wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.


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Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.
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It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thin...
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There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
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You're such a cynic," Molly said.

"I think cynics are playful and cute.
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I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.
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Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute hi...
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Gandalf never had this kind of problem.
He had exactly this problem, actually, standing in fro...
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I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell....
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Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.
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Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"
The lady smiled. ...
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It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alon...
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There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.
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Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe l...
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Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting yo...
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It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. On...
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Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like ...
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Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you ar...
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Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.
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You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're i...
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See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.
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I took a moment to study the wards. They were a smooth patchwork of enchantment, probably the result...
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There were guns on the coffee table. Like, a lot of them, broken out on cloths, being cleaned, leane...
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There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.
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On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make th...
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But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just becau...
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I am disturbed by the presence of inordinate levels of coincidence
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She pressed the rest of her clothes into my hands and said, "Don't do anything weird with them."
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You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.
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There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
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All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we ar...
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Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?"

The ...
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The world always thinks that the destruction of a physical vessel is victory,” he said quietly. �...
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beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy.
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You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
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Never touch my brother on his fucking birthday.
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Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies."

"Y...
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Pansy," Murphy sneered.

Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk li...
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You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know...
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Let's get something clear up front. I'm not Harry Dresden. Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-go...
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Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked.

I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she ca...
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I realized then what had happened.

She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into g...
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Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.

Gggrrrr r...
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A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning....
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Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evapor...
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A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. "Get more away...
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Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with styl...
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I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd sett...
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Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
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Stop," Kincaid said in a calm voice. "Unclench."
"Unclench what?" Murphy demanded.
"Unclen...
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Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey m...
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And it's deadly to us. We can inspire lust, but it's just a shadow. An illusion. Love is a dangerous...
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Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.
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