Quotes from Jim Butcher, Death Masks

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.

Do you know what I think?" Marcone said."You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.""Yes."I drew my gun. "Okay.

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

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

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.