Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

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

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

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I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

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

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

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

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

He needs to go rub his soul against life.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

Humility means realizing that it's fun to give everything away, particularly the things that you are most attached to.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.

Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.