Order of The Dresden Files Books. The Dresden Files is a series of fantasy/mystery novels by American novelist Jim Butcher. The series features Harry Dresden, a wizard/private investigator who looks into strange events that occur in Chicago. Harry Dresden is Chicago's only professional wizard. But when Detective Karrin Murphy asks for his unofficial help on what seems to be a routine haunting, Harry finds out it's anything but. He's going to need all the wizardly tricks in his pocket, plus a little help from his vampire brother.
Contents.Quotes. When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files. McCune, Alisa (2004). Retrieved on 2008-02-04. (2000).: Paranoid? Probably.
Chapter 1. Harry Dresden: is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did.
I don't think anyone has stones that big. Chapter 6. Harry Dresden: Tequila?
Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne.: Champagne, tequila, what's the difference, so long as it'll lower her inhibitions?Harry Dresden: Uh, I'm thinking it's going to get us a, um, sleazier result. Chapter 8. Harry Dresden: I'd made the vampire cry.
I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts. Chapter 9. Harry Dresden: The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry.
Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold. But in my corner of the country, I'm trying to nail things down. I don't want to live in Victor's jungle, even if it did eventually devour him.
I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call.
I'm in the book. Chapter 27, final lines of the book(2001). Harry Dresden: In McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all. Chapter 1. Harry Dresden: Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
Chapter 1. Harry Dresden: Maybe it wasn't anything I'd done. Maybe the monsters had gone on strike. Yeah right. Chapter 1.: Yes, Your honor, your victim was killed by a werewolf. Chapter 2. Harry Dresden: It's a place with a history, the neighbors are quiet, and my rent is cheap—though less so than it was before the demon thrashed my place.
Chapter 7. Harry Dresden: Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!. Chapter 18(2001).: I still can’t believe, that you came to the Vampires’ Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.Harry Dresden: Not only that, but a cheesy vampire.
Chapter 24. Michael Carpenter: Lord, we walk into darkness now.
Our enemies will surround us. Please help to make us strong enough to do what needs to be done. Amen. Chapter 24(2002). Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas. Chapter 10.
Harry Dresden: As I pulled into the parking lot, I reflected that odds were that not a lot of clandestine meetings involving mystical assassination, theft of arcane power, and the balance of power in the realms of the supernatural had taken place in a Wal-Mart Super Center. But then again, maybe they had.
Hell, for all I knew, the Mole Men used the changing rooms as a place to discuss plans for with the Psychic Jellyfish from Planet X and the Disembodied Brains-in-a-Jar from the Klaatuu Nebula. I know I wouldn’t have looked for them there.
Chapter 18. Harry Dresden: Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean, when you think about it, jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane, it defies the gravity of a entire planet by exploiting a loophole with air pressure, and it flies across distances that would take months or years to cross by any means of travel that has been significant for more than a century or three. You hurtle above the earth at enough speed to kill you instantly should you bump into something, and you can only breathe because someone built you a really good tin can that seems tight enough to hold in a decent amount of air. Hundreds of millions of man-hours of work and struggle and research, blood, sweat, tears and lives have gone into the history of air travel, and it has totally revolutionized the face of our planet and societies.But get on any flight in the country, and I absolutely promise you that you will find someone who, in the face of all that incredible achievement, will be willing to complain about the drinks.
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The drinks, people. That was me on the staircase to Chicago-Over-Chicago. Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of lake Michigan far below. Yes, I was using a legendary and enchanted means of travel to transcend the border between one dimension and the next, and on my way to an epic struggle between ancient and elemental forces.
But all I could think to say, between panting breaths, was, 'Yeah. They couldn't possibly have made this an escalator.' . Harry Dresden: The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the hell. 'I don't believe in faeries!' .
Chapter 31(2003). Harry Dresden: Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water.
Orange juice and toothpaste. Wizards and television. Chapter 1, Opening Line. Harry Dresden: I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it. Chapter 7.: Do you know what I think?Harry Dresden: You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.Marcone: Yes. I drew my gun.Harry Dresden: Okay. Chapter 32.
My protects me. My helps. Chapter 33(2004).: The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault. Chapter 1, Opening Line.: There was a sound of impact, a raspy, dry scream, and the vampire went down hard.
It lay on the ground like a butterfly pinned to a card, arms and legs thrashing uselessly. Its chest and collarbone had been crushed.
By an entire frozen turkey. A twenty-pounder. The plucked bird must have fallen from an airplane overhead, doubtlessly manipulated by the curse. By the time it got to the ground, the turkey had already reached its terminal velocity, and was still hard as a brick. The drumsticks poked up above the vampire's crushed chest, their ends wrapped in red tinfoil. The vampire gasped and writhed a little more. The timer popped out of the turkey.
Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. ' For my next trick,' I panted into the startled silence, ' anvils.'
.: It’s not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They’re basically huge vibrators. With wheels.: For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from.: An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo.: I'm pretty sure there's no Nobel prize for pornography.: Thus interrupting it.
Thus kablowie, thus death.:! Bolshevik Muppet!(2005).
Harry Dresden: On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding.
For freaking Cain. Chapter 1, opening lines. Harry Dresden: Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die.
And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die. Harry Dresden/Waldo Butters: Polka will never die!. Chapter 22.
Harry Dresden: Took cover. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.'
Contents AboutThe Dresden Files is a series of mystery fantasy novels written by Jim Butcher. It follows the adventures of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only wizard private detective.
There are 16 books in the series and has been adapted into comic form as well as a television series.PowerMost characters range from Human Level to Small Building level, including the protagonist Harry Dresden for the most part. However, there are several stronger characters including Queen Mab, Queen Titania, Mother Winter and Mother Summer, all of whom scale above or way way above Ebenezer McCoy who caused the 200 megaton (Mountain level) eruption of Krakatoa. There are also even stronger beings such as Dragons like Ferovax who used to change seasons and continents and cause ice ages. The Archangels are the current strongest beings to appear, being directly stated to be able to annihilate galaxies. There is also the White God who is directly superior to the Archangels, putting him above them, but to what extent is unknown.The verse also lacks speed and durability, aside from the stronger characters.
As said previously most characters are Small Building level or lower. The verse also has a lot of weaknesses for its characters, as most of the monsters in the series come from the real world and take their weaknesses with them.But the series also has a decent amount of hax abilities, such as a limited form of pseudo-omniscience called intellectus, essentially being able to think about something and receiving an answer, but this is usually limited to the top tiers of the series, such as the Mothers and Archangels, and those at a lower tier have much more limited version that only answers more specific questions.