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.
Jim ButcherSmiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.
Jim ButcherHeroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
Jim ButcherHe 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.
Jim ButcherPain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.
Jim Butcher