If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.
Jim ButcherJump into an open grave? What kind of idiot are you?" Butters replied. "I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team. There's snow and ice and slippery mud down there. That's like asking for an ironically broken neck.
Jim ButcherA bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, Iโve got some kind of medical issue thatโs going to kill me in a while if I donโt deal with it, oh, and the islandโs blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lot of the country with it if I donโt fix it.โ Thomas gave me a steady look. โSo,โ he said. โSame old, same old.
Jim ButcherFor the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there's more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn't be out in the open, and they're covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time." Harry Dresden, Turn Coat.
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