There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

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

As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.

Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcone inquired. "The plural could be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural.