Thank God for wisecracks.

Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.

He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.

People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.

Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They were concentrated most densely around her ... well ... She'd been, ah, vajazzled.

Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.