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3[[folder:By Harry Dresden]]
4->''"The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. [[Creator/WilliamButlerYeats Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold.]]\
5But in [[UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} my corner of the country]], [[{{Protectorate}} I'm trying to nail things down]]. [...] I don't want to live in a world where [[MightMakesRight the strong rule and the weak cower]]. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where [[OurTrollsAreDifferent trolls stay the hell under their bridges]], and [[TheFairFolk where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles]]. Where [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's.\
6{{My name is|InigoMontoya}} [[MeaningfulName Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden]]. [[BadassBoast Conjure by it at your own risk]]. When things get strange, when what [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight goes bump in the night]] flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, [[WhoYouGonnaCall give me a call]]. I'm in the book."''
7-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/{{Storm Front|DresdenFiles}}''
8
9->''I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.''
10-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/GravePeril''
11
12->''[[DestructiveSavior The building was on fire,]] [[BlatantLies and it wasn't my fault.]]''
13-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', [[RunningGag very frequently]]
14
15->''I put the 'ick' in magic.''
16-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/BloodRites''
17
18--> [[spoiler:I used the knife.]]
19--> [[spoiler:I saved a child.]]
20--> [[spoiler:I won a war.]]
21--> God forgive me.
22---> '''Harry''', after [[spoiler: saving his daughter ]],
23
24->''They were dealing with [[FamedInStory something far more dangerous than me]], Harry Dresden, who's [[TheAllegedCar battered old Volkswagon]] was currently in the city impound.\
25They were dealing with the [[TheDarkSide potential dark lord nightmare warlock]] they'd been busy fearing [[ThouShaltNotKill since I turned sixteen]]. They were dealing with the wizard who had faced the [[EvilSorcerer Heirs of Kemmler]] riding a [[RaisingTheSteaks zombie dinosaur]], and emerged victorious from a fight that had flattened [[MagicKnight Morgan]] and [[FullContactMagic Captain Luccio]] before they had even reached it.\
26They were dealing with the man who had [[RefugeInAudacity dropped a challenge to the entire Senior Council]], and who had then actually showed, apparently willing to fight -- on the shores of an [[SupervillainLair entirely too creepy island]] in the middle of a freshwater sea.''
27-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/TurnCoat''
28
29->''And there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. Faith isn't about perfect attendance in services, or how much money you put on a little plate. It isn't about going sky-clad to the holy rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better, and nobler, and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others, even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.''
30-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/{{Changes}}''
31
32->''One mistake [[spoiler: at the end of my life]] couldn't erase all the times I had stood unmoved at the edge of the abyss and made snide remarks at its expense. They could kill me, but they couldn't have me. I was my own.''
33-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/GhostStory''
34
35->''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis It.]]''
36->''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Wasn't.]]''
37->''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Right.]]''
38->''No, it wasn't. [[CrapsackWorld But the world wasn't a fair place, was it?]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast And I had more reason to know it than most people twice my age.]]''
39->''The world wasn't nice, and it wasn't fair. People who didn't deserve it suffered and died every single day.''
40->''[[{{Protectorate}} So]] [[AWorldHalfFull what?]] [[FromNobodyToNightmare So]] [[TheDreaded somebody]] [[ChronicHeroSyndrome ought]] [[DestructiveSaviour to]] [[DarkShepherd do]] [[AntiHero something]] [[HopeBringer about]] [[CombatPragmatist it.]]''
41-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/GhostStory''
42
43->''But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness...\
44...which could obviously be redeemed only by passing through the fiery, cleansing inferno of a wizardly digestive tract.''
45-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/SkinGame''
46[[/folder]]
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48[[folder:Other Characters]]
49->''Let's get something clear right up front. \
50[[PerspectiveFlip I'm not Harry Dresden.]]\
51Harry's a [[MagicKnight wizard]]. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. [[CrazyIsCool He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull]], [[BadassLongcoat with a big leather coat]] and a [[HandCannon .44 revolver in his pocket]]. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu He'll spit in the eye of gods]] [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done]], and to hell with the consequences — and yet somehow [he] manages to remain a decent human being.\
52I'll be damned if I know how.\
53But then, I'll be damned regardless.\
54My name is [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Thomas Raith]], and I'm a [[SuccubiAndIncubi monster]].''
55-->-- '''Thomas''', opening narration of ''Backup''
56
57->''My god, you're a living wrecking ball!''
58-->-- '''Waldo Butters''' (effectively describing Harry in a single sentence), ''Dead Beat''
59
60->''What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally [[ScrewDestiny spit in the face of destiny]]?''
61-->-- '''John Marcone''', ''White Night''
62
63->'''Listens-to-Wind''': "There is the world that is and the world that should be. We live in one."
64->'''Ebenezar''': "And must create the other, if it is ever to be."
65-->--''Turn Coat''
66
67->''You really do have a fairy godmother!''
68-->-- '''Susan''' giddily unleashing her inner fashionista in concert with Lea in ''Changes''.
69
70->''"This singularity is an amalgamation of many, many choices. Fitz chose to place what little precious trust he had in you. You chose to involve Anthony in the young man's existence. Anthony chose to come here despite the danger. Aristedes chose to assault him. Waldo and Daniel chose to involve themselves in his rescue. Beyond that, every single one of the people known to each individual I have mentioned have made choices that impacted the life of those involved. Together, all of you have determined this reality. [[GodsHandsAreTied Who am I to unmake such a thing]]?"''\
71''"[[RefugeInAudacity Fine, be that way]]."''\
72''"[[BluntYes I will]]."''
73-->--'''Angel of Death''' [[RageAgainstTheHeavens in an argument with]] '''Harry''' in ''Ghost Story''.
74
75->''Ladies, gents, what a treat it's been scraping out of a mess by the skin of our teeth with you. Godspeed.''
76-->-- '''Binder''', ''Skin Game''
77
78->''My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.''
79-->-- '''Michael Carpenter''', ''Death Masks''
80
81->''Lies. Mab cannot change who you are.''
82-->-- '''Uriel''', ''Ghost Story''
83[[/folder]]

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