Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
12 quotes
"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."
"I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family."
"A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family. And they were my heroes."
"All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action."
"Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?"
"Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise."
"Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of times they don’t understand what’s happening. They see something they don’t like and it upsets them—because they don’t have the full story, aren’t personally facing the problem, and don’t know how much worse the alternative could be."
"I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore."
"Insecurity, thy name is teenager."
"You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?"
"Vanity, thy name is vampire."
"You don't have to make fun of it.""Actually I do," I said. "I make fun of almost everything."