Lies. Mab cannot change who you are.

We're always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down.

Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.

Troubleshooters?" Michael asked. "When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

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

Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.