“Lighten up. Brighten up - that's my mantra, and it gets me through the rest of the afternoon.”
“I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.”
“Lightening up every day is a great way to travel through your life journey too.”
“I'm never going to get married.""You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind.""No. My mind's made up.”
“He showed me how...See, he says he's going up through Laos, then into Burma, and then some other country, I forget, and then India and Iran and Turkey, and then Greece, and the rest is easy. That's what he said. The rest is easy, he said.”
“I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.”