More quotes by Jim Butcher, Death Masks

"There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward."
"I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart."
"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."
"It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.I turned around and ran like hell."
"I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane."