More quotes by Jim Butcher, Death Masks

"I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me."
"There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward."
"Apocalypse is a frame of mind."[Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope."
"Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions."
"So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?"