‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ' 'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher

You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.

I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.