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It only means what you decide it means.

That underlay the city of Chicago.

I hear that they make disinfectants that don't hurt these days. But Charity used iodine.

Speed of lightning! Roar of thunder! Fighting all who rob or plunder! Underdog!

You know how to use magic?" I asked. "I prefer calculus.

Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes

Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.

I hadn't gotten beaten up twice, shot, and nearly strangled to get taken out by a misguided werewolf bitch.

I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish.

Do you feel you should walk the same path because so many have walked it before you came,

I knew what it was like to have holes in my life in the shape of people who should have been there.

Two million bucks would buy you a lot of ramen.

If he stayed close enough to Maggie for long enough, the dog might wind up with more education than me. Then there'd be no talking to him.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.

Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary.

[He] stared at Rowl with flat eyes.
Rowl yawned his unconcern. "If you wish to keep those eyes," he said pleasantly, "move them elsewhere.

His mind is strange," came Varg's rumbling voice, "but capable.

By the time I got home, it was after two o'clock in the morning. The

I guess maybe you don't get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

I am disturbed by the presence of inordinate levels of coincidence

He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore.

So there are things stacked against us," I said. "What else is new?

The reward for work well-done is more work.

I leaned against the wall, dazed, panting, and gasped, in my deepest and most gravelly voice, No one can chain the Hulk!

We wizards are terrific at brooding.

Her looks were almost extraneous. They weren't any more important to her appeal than a glass was to wine.

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

In the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway.

I longed for my bed. I longed for sleep.

Peace cannot be bought, Aleron," he murmured to LaFortier. "History teaches that lesson. I learned it. You should have, too." LaFortier

Like "love," "hope" is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

The border's been waggling back and forth like a hooker at a dockworker's convention.

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

For a second, I wanted very badly to know a spell that would let me melt through the floor in a quivering puddle of please-don't-kill-me.

Magic comes from life, from the energy of our world and from people, from their emotions and their will. That's what I had always been taught.

Better to have the magical arsenal and not need it, than to not have it and get killed to death. I

Just remember, Harry, I told you this was a bad idea." "Preemptive I-told-you-sos," I said. "Now I've seen everything.

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.

Oh, good grief. The Mickey Mouse Club of werewolves wanted to throw in on my side.

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

From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before.

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon
perfect.

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

Survival was not enough. One had to live.

Beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy.

I put the ick in magic.

Men plan. Fate Laughs.

A tumbleweed went rolling by in the street. I'm not even kidding. An actual, literal tumbleweed. Man, Oklahoma.

Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained.

You know, I believe it is possible to reference something other than Star Wars, boss." I narrowed my eyes in Muppetly wisdom. "That is why you fail.

The Winter inside me was torment and agony - but at least when I was immersed in it, I couldn't feel.

You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it.

Parts of Chicago are wondrous fair, and parts of Chicago look postapocalyptic. This block had seen the apocalypse come, grunted, and said, Meh.

Righteous. The real deal. He's honest, loyal, faithful. He lives his ideals. It gives him power.

He's a rather brilliant defensive tactician," Grimm said. "I agree," Bayard said. "The problem is that he's an inept defensive strategist.

What is this thing you speak of, 'sleep'?

How bad is it?" "They drafted me," I said. "That's bad, all right," Bob said cheerfully.

Here's something else I bet you didn't know about Tyrannosaurs: they don't corner well.

I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.

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.

You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep." He

The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.

Aye, Skipper!" Journeyman said.

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.

The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean.

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.

Polka will never die!" Butters screamed. "I can't believe I'm hearing this," Thomas muttered.

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

The worst lies are almost always silence - or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.

In for a sheep, in for a gargant.

It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight - not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable.

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

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

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I said. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett.

If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.

Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

You couldn't guess at a breed to look at him, but at least one of his parents must have been a wooly mammoth.

I serve."
"Serve who?"
"Heaven. Or the divine in nature. The memory of my fathers past. My fellow man. Myself. All pieces of the same thing.

Lies. Mab cannot change who you are.

Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

The Blue Beetle was not a clown car," I said severely. "It was a machine of justice.

Sometimes, son," Count Calderon said, "you have to acknowledge that your future is in someone else's hands.

Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.

Still going with the phallic foci, eh? Staff and rod?"
"They make me feel all manly.

I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn't good business.

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

Which in retrospect just goes to show that a pretty face can inspire even a bodiless spirit of intellect to dizzying heights of idiocy.

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

I shied away from that line of thought, lest it bring up too many old memories.

There are people out there who enjoy hurting and scaring others. They're going to keep doing it until you make them stop.

Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.

It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

It doesn't take much power to hurt someone," she said. "It's far easier than healing the damage.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 452," Bob said. "They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

That's Doctor Smart-ass. I didn't spend eight years in insult college to be called Mister.