Ghost Story (The Dresden Files, #13)

by Jim Butcher

I thought about that for a moment. Then I said, “You just used obviate and ain’t in the same sentence.” “I got me one of them word-a-day calendars,” he said. “Don’t be obstreperous.” “You kidding?” I said, settling back in the seat. “I live to be obstreperous.”

“There are no words. It was like The Lord of the Rings and All My Children made a baby with the Macho Man Randy Savage and a Whac-A-Mole machine.”

I’d fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.