If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster’s mind.

God save me from idealists.

Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.