Harry Dresden Quotes

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

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

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

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

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

You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

I don't believe in faeries!

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.

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

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

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

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

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

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

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

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.

Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden

A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

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

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

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

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

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

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

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

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

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

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

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan

Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.

Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

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

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

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

I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry.

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.

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

Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

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