Quotes from book

Storm Front

“A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.”

“Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.”

“Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.”

“Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness.

Sometimes it is comforting.

Most often, it isn't.”

“I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.”

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

“There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.”

“Harry Dresden: Maybe it wasn't anything I'd done. Maybe the monsters had gone on strike. Yeah right.”

“At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.”

“She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?”

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

“They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on.”

“A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.”

“Harry Dresden: Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”

“HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment”

“It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, "Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?”

“My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away.
Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?”

“I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.”

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