Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. That was me on the staircase to Chicago-Over-Chicago. 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.Д«ut 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. 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. 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. I mean, when you think about it, jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. Harry Dresden: Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace.I know I wouldnвЂ™t have looked for them there. Hell, for all I knew, the Mole Men used the changing rooms as a place to discuss plans for world domination with the Psychic Jellyfish from Planet X and the Disembodied Brains-in-a-Jar from the Klaatuu Nebula. 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.Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas. Bob Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring.Please help to make us strong enough to do what needs to be done. Michael Carpenter: Lord, we walk into darkness now.Harry Dresden: Not only that, but a cheesy vampire. Michael Carpenter: I still canвЂ™t believe, that you came to the VampiresвЂ™ Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.Harry Dresden: Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!.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.

Karrin Murphy: Yes, Your honor, your victim was killed by a werewolf.Harry Dresden: Maybe it wasn't anything I'd done.Harry Dresden: Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.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. Harry Dresden: In McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people.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. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles.

I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I don't want to live in Victor's jungle, even if it did eventually devour him. But in my corner of the country, I'm trying to nail things down. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Harry Dresden: The world is getting weirder.Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts. Harry Dresden: I'd made the vampire cry.Harry Dresden: Uh, I'm thinking it's going to get us a, um, sleazier result. Harry Dresden: Tequila? Are you sure on that one? I thought the base for a love potion was supposed to be champagne.Д«ob: Champagne, tequila, what's the difference, so long as it'll lower her inhibitions?.I don't think anyone has stones that big. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. Harry Dresden: Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway.But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

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.

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