"Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when ..."
- Jim Butcher
"Magic. It can get a guy killed."
"No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for ..."
"You're going to have to take care of yourself," Karrin said quietly. "Over the next few weeks. Rest. Give yourself a chance to heal. Keep the wound on your leg clean. Get to a doctor and get that arm ..."
"I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers."
"Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change."
"[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal."The kid lifted his eyebrows."My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big word..."
"Raith smiled. "There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You we..."
"I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution."