It’s Halloween, and that means it’s Harry Dresden’s birthday. In honor of our favorite sleuthy wizard, we’re releasing the third chapter in the Proven Guilty preview a day early. It’s a present for anyone!
In honor of the event, please post your favorite quotable moments from the Dresden Files by adding a comment to this post…!
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Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I am too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Octoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die!
“Good Afternoon.” [Michael] said.
I smiled tiredly at him. “Your faith protects you, eh?” …
“My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.”
Some things just aren
I’d made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters’ hearts. -p.118 Storm Front
“Because it must be done,” he answered without hesitation. For the good of the people, some must place themselves in harm’s way. Some must pledge their courage and their lives to protect the community.”
“Just a minute,” I said. “You became a Knight of the Cross because you were a communist.”
Sanya’s face twisted with revultion. “Certainly not. Trotsky. Very different.”
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Really, the whole conversation where Sanya and Harry talk for the first time. Best. Scene. Ever.
“Give me the pen..”
The Best Lines from the funniest and most outrageous ( at the same time) book ever Summer Knight:
The Noise was Deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own Battle Cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the Hell.
“I Don’t believe in Faeries!”
Life is a Journey….Time is a river….The door is a Jar….
“Polka will never die!”
Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.
Happy birthday Jim.
I Hope you had a good one. My first Wedding anavery was on the same day and We had a blast.
Best Wishes , And I look forward to reading many more of your books. I can’t wait for the next one.
The opening passage to Dead Beat has to be one of my all-time faves.
” On the whole, we’re a murderous race.
According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain’s brother Abel probably never saw it coming.
As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding.
For freaking Cain.”
Hmm
For my next trick, anvils!
“The action hero one liners don’t count if you mix metaphors.” – “Oh well, looks like no Harry Dresden action figures for me.”
“Short people got nobody to love” to some effect.
Maybe I’d been shut away in my lab too long, but Spenser never mentions that Mab has a great ass.
So I notice these things. So sue me.
From Fool Moon:
“What did you do?”
“Nothing, never came close, didn’t do anything, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it,” I muttered. “You got that paper cup? Right, then. All we need is a stuffed animal.”
He stared at me. “Wh-what did you say?!”
“A stuffed animal, man!” I roared at him. “Don’t mess with a wizard while he’s wizarding!”
Ubriacha, ubriachas, ubrium… to the Peanuts theme. Classic. I had the Snoopy song in my head for a week after that one.
Michael: “What are you waiting for, Harry? Let’s go find her.”
Harry: “But your kids…”
(Michael opens the door to reveal Father Forthill on the other side)
Father Forthill: “Oh. Michael. I didn’t mean to stop by so late, but my car stalled only a block from here on the way back from taking Mrs. Hamish home, and I thought I might borrow…You need a baby-sitter again, don’t you.”
Michael: “They’re already asleep. Do you mind?”
Father Forthill: “Never. God go with you.”
Michael: “You see, Harry?”
Harry: “Handy fringe benefit.”