Quotes About Decision

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.

Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way

If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.

Kid. You just made the last mistake of your life.' 'God,' I said. 'I wish .

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.

It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

The real battle for your own soul isn't about falling from a great height; it's about descending, or not, one choice at a time.

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die. Yes, Kitai said in a patient tone. Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

Go back," he said. "Can't. Stand aside?" "Can't." "So it's like that?" I said. Fix exhaled. Then he nodded. "Yeah." And for the first time in a decade the Winter Knight and Summer Knight went to war.

I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done. I turned around and ran like hell.

This is scary. And we're doing it anyway, I said. That makes us brave, right? If we get away with it, I said. If we don't, it just makes us stupid.

We start by sinking a barge, I decided. Then I blinked and looked at the Erlking. Can we sink a barge? The shadow-masked Erlking tilted his head slightly to one side, his burning eyes narrowed. Wizard, please.

Never point a gun at anything you aren't sure you want dead.

You can't go around making people's choices for them. Not if you love them.

Lady Aquitaine sighed. "Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum.

She came back with a can of Coke and a can of Diet Coke, and handed me the nonvile one.

Wars and plans can't coexist, sir. One of them kills the other.

Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way.

Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up.

If I ever invade Calderon again, he said, it will be in the summer.

Come on, I said to Karrin. Head for the other boat. Should we? she asked. That Erlking guy seems a little..do-it-yourselfy.

Do you remember the hardest lesson of power?" "Knowing when not to use it?

It's easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back.