Quotes from work

Turn Coat

“There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.”

“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.”

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

“Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.”

“I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.”

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

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

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

“As far as the Council is concerned, the U. S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms."
"Eh?"
"Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.”

“Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.”

“You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you simplygo away.”

“Harry Dresden: I can't believe I'm about to say this. So think real careful about where this is coming from: Have you people ever considered talking when you've got a problem?”

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

“There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.”

“Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.”

“The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.”