The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

My gast was pretty well flabbered.

You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame." Sanya to Dresden

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice. It’s the choice that counts.