For the record, surgeries aren’t pretty. there’s a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there’s more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn’t be out in the open, and they’re covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time.” Harry Dresden, Turn Coat.
I’m a wizard. That means I have power, and power and responsibility go hand in hand.
He stared at me. “Wh-what did you say?” “A stuffed animal, man!” I roared at him. “Don’t mess with a wizard when he’s wizarding!
Harry, life isn’t simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you’re in the thick of things, sometimes it’s hard for us to tell. You didn’t do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn’t make it right – but it doesn’t make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become.
Investigate the faeries. Great. That was absolutely guaranteed to get complicated before I got any useful answers. If there was one thing faeries hated doing, it was giving you a straight answer, about anything. Getting plain speech out out of one is like pulling out teeth. Your own teeth. Through your nose.
Playing cat and mouse is generally only fun for the cat.
The worst lies are almost always silence – or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.
Sometimes, when I get bored, I stop and think.
One rather thick volume was titled Means of Execution Through the Ages, and was placed with an elegant balance of nonchalance and availability at the eye level of anyone entering the room. As threats went, it was nearly subliminal – and perhaps it was placed there for that very reason.
You will probably find, in life, that successes and victories tend to overshadow the risks you took, while failure will amplify how idiotic they were.
I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi.
Doesn’t matter how pretty you are. What’s important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear “no” often enough.
It’s not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it.
Belief in a story,” Uriel said, “of good confronting evil, of light overcoming darkness, of love transcending hate.” He tilted his head. “Isn’t that where all faith begins?
Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations.
And the fae have a way of making sure that further bargains only get you in deeper, instead of into the clear. Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there’s evil for you.
It gets sort of Zen after a while,” Butters said brightly. “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.
When kind men grow angry, things are about to change.
Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained.
Imagine Smaug’s treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste.