There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.

My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.

Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. "For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.