Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

Better safe than exsanguinated.

All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans who allowed the television to raise their children. People were looking for something - I think they just didn't know what. And even though they were once again starting to open their eyes to the world of magic and the arcane that had been with them all the while, they still thought I must be some kind of joke.