Brief Cases (The Dresden Files, #15.1)

by Jim Butcher

was greeted with the enthusiasm of a cloister of diabetics meeting their insulin-delivery truck.

You can use just about anything to make a magic circle, but salt is often the most practical. It’s a symbol of the earth and of purity, and it doesn’t draw ants. You use sugar to make a circle on the carpet only once. Let me tell you.

A steel target hit by bursts from an AA-12 rapidly comes to resemble a screen door.

I picked up a notebook and a couple of pens at the university bookstore and ambled on into the large classroom. It was a perfect disguise. The notebook was college ruled.