I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

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

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.

Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way

There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear.

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.