It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

There are some people who will never understand what loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course, but they will never know.They will never see it from the inside. They couldn't imagine a world where something like that was real.

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan