- Harry Dresden: I think the ship has kinda sailed, you know. The barn doors open, the cows are out and the bag is really devoid of cats!
- Harry Dresden: Here's what I need you to do. I need you to lie low, stay out of the way. I need you to tell me if you NOTICE anything.
- Bob: You want me to spy.
- Harry Dresden: Pretty much.
- Bob: How clandestine!
- Bob: Has anyone ever explained the concept of cost benefit analysis to you?
- Harry Dresden: I dropped out of high school, remember?
- Bob: And you wonder why your life is an unending series of insurmountable intellectual, financial, and emotional hurdles.
- Harry Dresden: Murphy, I am not responsible for every single weird thing that happens in Chicago.
- Lt. Connie Murphy: Just most of them.
- Morgan: A civilian. In the middle of this. You know when this is done, we're gonna have to take her...
- Harry Dresden: No. Listen carefully, Morgan. Murphy is not going to be erased, dealt with, or anything like that, okay? 'Cause if she is, I'm gonna come after you; I'm gonna come after Mai and the entire council, and I'm gonna make my psychopathic, bloodthirsty uncle look like Mahatma Gandhi. You hear me?
- Morgan: You don't frighten me, Dresden.
- Harry Dresden: Really? 'Cause I scare the hell out of myself sometimes.
- Morgan: Somethings never change. Always blowing things up.
- Harry Dresden: I'm not always blowing things up.
- Morgan: [sarcastically] Right, sometimes you set things on fire.
- Lt. Connie Murphy: [seeing Bob] He just walked through a wall.
- Harry Dresden: He's a ghost. It's a long story.