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.

Me and polite have never been on close terms.

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.