You have to realize when you’ve reached the limits of what you can choose to do to change the situation.
Family complicates everything. Dammit.
Marcone’s eyes widened. One of his hands twitched. “And the adults let you have it?
My scrotum attempted to travel back in time.
Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
I put it down on the floor of the limo and said firmly, “I don’t do hats.
We all must die, Dresden. There is no shame in dying for something worthwhile.
I had expected him to try to talk me out of it. Or at least to berate me for being an idiot. He didn’t do either. There was a calm acceptance of terrible things that was part and parcel of Sanya’s personality. No matter how bad things got, I didn’t think anything would ever truly faze him. He simply accepted the bad things that happened and soldiered on as best he could.
Lara said. “They’re smart, skilled, dedicated, professional, they’ve got several centuries of collective knowledge through the Masons, and they will absolutely be coming to learn whatever they can. They are extremely dangerous.
There are a lot of ways to get ready for trouble. You get ready to fight. That’s one of them. But it’s even more important that you build something worth fighting for.
I figure everyone is so insane about the internet there must be something cool there.
Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person’s hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words.
I’m really not all that interesting. I like reading, staying home, going on walks with my dog – it’s like I’m already a retiree. Who wants to hear about that? Especially when I would have to scream it over the music to which no one dances.
I woke up. That surprised me, in itself.
Compartmentalize and conquer.
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living.
Home, like love, hate, war, and peace, is one of those words that is so important that it doesn’t need more than one syllable.
Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic.
You can’t fix tomorrow until it gets here.” “Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.
Make things right?” I asked. “Where did you learn that one?” “From Mr. Carpenter,” she said. “He says making things right is the first and last thing you should do every day. And that it’s what you always try to do.