Quotes from book

Blood Rites

“Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.”

“Thomas Raith: An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo.”

“Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”

“Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."

Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.”

“Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!”

“Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.”

“Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.”

“Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.”

“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.”

“Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.”

“I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.”

“Hell's bells, irony blows.”

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

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

“Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.”

“Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.”