Small Favor Quotes
"Winter came early that year; it should have been a tip-off."
"Faeries aren’t wholly beings of the spirit world. They leave corpses behind."
"Not every good thing that happens is divine intervention."
"Your nose is all swollen up and you’ve got two black eyes. You look like a raccoon. Holding a dislocated ass."
"I’ve always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating."
"Weregoats. I’m fairly sure I could have led a perfectly rich and satisfying life even if I hadn’t heard that word or enjoyed the mental images it conjures."
"It's not paranoia—just practical experience."
"There's nothing as exhilarating as being shot at and missed."
"When you're fourteen floors up, it gives you an alien perspective of streets and buildings that might otherwise be familiar."
"I’m not terribly well motivated to bend over backward to save John Marcone’s Armani-clad ass."
"It’s easier to replace an apartment than your ass."
"The Denarians know that we use the church as a safehouse. They’ll be watching it."
"The Knights of the Blackened Denarius. You remember Michael’s sword? The nail worked into the hilt?"
"Each coin has the spirit of one of the Fallen trapped inside. Whoever possesses one of the coins can draw upon the Fallen angel’s power."
"Michael himself was there with his two tallest sons, each of them wielding a snow shovel as they labored to clear the driveway and the sidewalk and the porch of the ongoing snow."
"Harry, if the Council learns that you’ve misled them—They’ll probably charge me with treason."
"I will not set out to simply murder them and have done. It’s a solution, Harry. But it isn’t good enough."
"I am making a difference. And you, Dresden? Have you considered taking up Fidelacchius? Joining us?"
"I picked up my staff and rose to face the enormous gruff."
"Those who underestimate them generally don’t survive it."
"Our lives belong to the Almighty. We serve and live for the sake of others. Not for our own."
"I have no idea who was ordering these things around."
"In my experience, when there’s a Knight of the Cross around, there’s no such thing as coincidence."
"I’m not gonna do that. Because I don’t know this one well enough to get the quote right."
"But it’s something about the best way to defeat temptation is to avoid it."
"I don’t think of it as retreating. I think of it as an advance to the cheer."
"I only suggest possibilities. Here is what is concrete: You and I share a great many foes."
"You can’t improve on perfection. That’s why it’s called perfection."
"Good and evil are relative. You know that by now."
"I’ve fought and bled to defend you and your family."
"It isn’t easy. But it isn’t complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car."
"The real question is, what am I going to do if they don’t show up, and at the worst possible time to boot? Die of shock, probably."
"We’re all imaginary friends to one another, Harry."
"I have no desire to drag Chicago’s underworld or the rest of the White Council into this ugly little affair."
"They want us at one another’s throats. They want us to distrust one another."
"Give up the coin, Rosanna. Please. Let me help you."
"Most of the time it works out well only for the lions."
"I’m not really sure where He stands on the Harry Dresden issue."
"No heartbeat of the city, no voices, no nothing, except the glug and slap of water hitting the hull of the boat."
"I think you’re Tessa’s trusted lieutenant for a reason."
"But out here, in the center of the vast, empty cold of the lake, there was nothing."
"You have no idea what the depths of cold can be until you have jumped into near-freezing water."
"I’m not a Knight. But that doesn’t mean I don’t draw the line somewhere."
"I liked to give Thomas a hard time about the Water Beetle, teasing him that he’d stolen it from the prop room of Jaws."
"It wouldn’t have been impossible to sink one of the rafts. But it would have killed every man inside."
"I’m more worried about all the things I’ll never be rid of."
"Maybe one archangel invested his strength in this situation overtly and immediately. Maybe another one was just quieter about it."