The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt

[loulou]

Driving, Something Borrowed, page 61.
"Under normal circumstances, the trip to the resort would have taken half an hour. I'm not saying that Murphy's driving was suicidal. Not quite. But after the third near collision, I closed my eyes and fought off the urge to chant "there's no place like home."
Murphy got us there in twenty minutes."

[Sir lerks-a-lot]

Fists (or alertness)

WN Chapter 2
With no warning whatsoever, Murphy moved, spinning in a blur of motion that swept her leg out in a scything, ankle-height arch behind her. There was a thump of impact, and the sound of something heavy hitting the floor. Murphy—her eyes closed—sprang onto something unseen, and her hands moved in a couple of small, quick circles, fingers grasping. Then Murphy grunted, set her arms, and twisted her shoulders a little.  There was a young woman’s high-pitched gasp of pain, and abruptly, underneath Murphy, there was a girl. Murphy had her pinned on her stomach on the floor, one arm twisted behind her, wrist bent at a painful angle.

(If the whole thing is too long consider just using the part in bold)

Driving
PG Chapter 4
I wrenched at the steering wheel and the brakes, my body responding to things my stunned brain hadn't caught up to yet. I think I kept it from becoming a total disaster, because instead of spinning off into oncoming traffic or hitting the wall at a sharp angle, I managed to slam the Beetle's passenger-side broadside into the building beside the street. Brick grated on steel, until I came to a halt fifty feet later.

[prime_spirit]

Here's an early one from Blood Rites:
Weapons (weaponed combat, swordplay, thrown weaponry, weapon knowledge)

"As I watched, one of them reached down between its crooked legs and . . . Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but it gathered up the kind of ammunition primates in zoos traditionally rely upon. The monkey-demon hurled it with a chittering scream, and it combusted on its way to me. I had to duck before the noxious ball of incendiary goop smacked into my nose."

Here's an early one from Proven Guilty:
Driving (driving, flying, boating, car chases, shortcuts, street navigation)

"Stars swarmed over my vision and I tried to swat them away so that I could get a look at the Chrysler's plates--but it was gone in a heartbeat. Or at least I think it was. Truth be told, my head was spinning so much that the car could have been doing interpretive dance in a lilac tutu and I might not have noticed."

EDIT: Ooo... and one from Dead Beat.Handy, if you don't want to say your real name:

Deceit (Falsehood, deception, distraction, misdirection)
"Who," said the man, his accent thick and British, "are you?"
"The Great Pumpkin," I responded. "I've risen from the pumpkin patch a bit early because Butters is just that nifty. And you are?"

[iago]

Great finds so far, guys!  I'll try to do a "tally" soon so we can see what's not getting hit.

[glmagus]

Though I'm unsure of the exact page number, for Performance can it be anything other than:

"Polka will never die!"
"D**n right!"

[King of De Nile]

Athletics -
Blood Rites, Chapter 1

Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. I ran away.

Investigation -
Dead Beat, Chapter 3

"Because if someone's setting up for big bad juju, they'll have left bodies. If they've done that, then I have a place to start tracking them and finding out what's going on."

"Harry?" Bob called up as I left the lab. "Where are you going?"

I stuck my head back down the trap door and said, "The morgue.'

[Claire]

Presence-
"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault."  -Blood Rites


Survival-
"My faith protects me.  My Kevlar helps."  - Death Masks

[glmagus]

Rapport:
"Harry, what you know about women I can juggle." Bob the skull.

[maieo]

Contacts:
Proven Guilty, Chapter 1:
"Find out why," he said. "You have contacts within the Courts. Find out what's happening. Find out why the sidhe haven't gone to war."

Rapport:
Storm Front, Chapter 1:
"Oh. Is this, um. Harry Dresden? The, ah, wizard?"
No, I thought. It's Harry Dresden the, ah, lizard. Harry the wizard is one door down.

I don't know why, but I saw this as Scholarship:
Dead Beat, Chapter 2:
Bob wasn't supposed to be a sleeping nightmare waiting to wake up. Bob was supposed to be my wisecracking porta-geek.

Alertness, possibly?:
Blood Rites, Chapter 3:
"Wow," Thomas said. "Talk about your luck."
"Yeah. It's sort of a first for me."

Conviction (maybe I'm biased, but I think this is perfect):
Grave Peril, Chapter 2:
"You have a good heart, Harry Dresden," Michael said, a fierce grin stretching his mouth. "God will smile on this choice."
"Yeah. Tell Him I said hello, and ask Him not to Sodom and Gomorrah my apartment, and we'll be even."

[elmago79]

Here's another one for Rapport, from Fool Moon:

"Do all wizards," he said, "get the kiddie crowns and wear them
around? Or is that only for special occasions?"
"Do all werewolves," I shot back, snatching the crown from my head,
"wear glasses and too much Old Spice? Or is that only for full moons?"

[elmago79]

And one for Resources, directly above the last one:

I got out of the van, in the garage, and stared at the Mercedes and the
Suburban also parked in it. "Where are we?" I said.
[...] "It's my parents' place. They're in Italy for another week."

[Karevala]

Fun, Fun, Fun!

All of the following quotes are from Death Masks (in paperback)

Weapons
Holy water, a couple cloves of garlic, vials of salt, and iron filings filled the basket, intended to be door prizes for anything that showed up in an attempt to suck my blood, carry me off to faerieland, or sell me stale cookies. (DM, Chap 10, Page 105)

Scholarship
I found the box and pawed through it until I had found a vellum scroll tied shut with a white ribbon. I opened it and peered down  at the the handwritten calligraphy. It started off with the word Insomuch, and the syntax got more opaque from there. (DM, Chap 8, Page 84)

Resources
"Do you love money then, Mister Dresden?" … "I used to think I loved it. But now I realize it was just a dependency." (DM, Chap 7, Page 77)

Contacts
I'd come here to meet Mort and get some information from him. He'd come here to meet me, because he refused to be seen with me on the street. (DM, Chap 1, Page 5)

Alertness
I licked my lips and checked all the fire exits, just to be safe. No telling when you might need to make a speedy exit. (DM, Chap 1, Page 1)

Athletics
I did the only thing any reasonable wizard would have done. I turned around and ran like hell. (DM, Chap 5, Page 57)

One other thing I'd learned. Wheezy wizards aren't all that good at running. (DM, Chap 6, Page 58)



I can't wait to look for more...

[iago]

So. Awesome.

I'm very happy with what I'm seeing.

[NightProtector]

Under Resources...maybe

I don't have my books near me so I don't know which one...

The priest remembering Harry because he'd never blessed a 55 gallon drum of water before?

[Sway]

Burglary
SF, p.64/65
"One of the reasons vampires, as a rule, don't do it - they have enough trouble just holding themselves together, outside the Nevernever. It isn't harmful to a human wizard, like me, but it can really impair anything you try to do with magic. Also, it just isn't polite."

Presence
SK, p. 56
"Still, it was my first Council meeting as a full wizard, and he was the Merlin, after all. And I did look pretty bad. Plus, Ebanezar shot me a warning glance. I swallowed a hot answer and took a stab at diplomacy."

Performance
DM, p.1
"It isn't like I have stage fright or anything, see. Because I don't."

That's what I got so far. Edit if need be