HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD
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Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has... read more
In this book follows a wizard named Harry Dresden trying to solve a case of otherworldly murders. The victims all died as if their hearts exploded violently from inside their chest cavities. Harry realizes it would have taken major magic mojo to pull something like this off, but he doesn’t... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
“A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than in the way he employs his strength, his power.”Harry Blackstone Copperfield 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
“Women are better at hating than men. They can focus it better, let it go better.”Harry Dresden
“Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?”
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.Highlighted by 344 Kindle customers
There is no truer gauge of a man’s character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.Highlighted by 262 Kindle customers
I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts.Highlighted by 147 Kindle customers
Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn’t coming back?Highlighted by 121 Kindle customers
Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon—perfect.Highlighted by 97 Kindle customers
“Thaumaturgy,” I said. “As above, so below. Make something happen on a small scale, and give it the energy to happen on a large scale.”Highlighted by 79 Kindle customers
Evocation is the most direct, spectacular, and noisy form of expressed magic, or sorcery. Explosions, fire, that sort of thing.Highlighted by 79 Kindle customers
They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we’ve got nothing, nothing at all, on women.Highlighted by 68 Kindle customers
Potions are all made pretty much the same way. First you need a base to form the essential liquid content, then something to engage each of the senses, and then something for the mind and something else for the spirit. Eight ingredients, all in all, and they’re different for each and every potion, and for each person who makes them.Highlighted by 57 Kindle customers
The only things I had clean were more sweats and another T-shirt, this one proclaiming in bold letters over a little cartoon graveyard, “EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED—THEY FOUND THE BODY.”Highlighted by 56 Kindle customers
Chapter 1 - 27
Followed by Fool Moon.
Mild sexual references, violence and mild profanity
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