Quotes About Identity

MY NAME IS Mouse and I am a Good Dog. Everyone says so.

Tell me something important about her. People make fun of her? Some did, she said. I never liked it, but... Crap. I looked at Molly and said, Code Carrie. We're in trouble.

Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him.

Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves.

Names are unique sounds and cadences of words that are attached to one specific individual-sort of like a kind of theme music.

I was staring into a mirror, and I didn't like what I saw there.

He's a lawyer, he's a priest. This does not compute. - Harry Dresden

I hate feeling like Han Solo in a world of Jedi. I'm supposed to be the Jedi. - Harry Dresden

Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst.

I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser.

the end of the day, people have to be who they are. If you try to take that from them, you diminish them. You reduce them to children, unable to make decisions for themselves. There's no way to poison your relationship with someone else faster.

Finally, I said, very quietly, 'I don't know if I'm one of the good guys anymore.

You may pretend you are like them. But you are not.

purple is my favorite color that isn't black, and

We are as the dead, Sha said. Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And, when it is necessary, to surrender those lives. When we become what we are, we lose our lives - our names, our family, our homes, and our honour. All that remains is our lord.

You're a genuine Greek god. You're the Lord of the Underworld. And . . . you named your dog Spot?

I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.

It was a loss of identity. I was a wizard. It was more than just a job, more than just a title. Wizardry was at the core of my being. It was my relationship with my magic, the way I used it, the things it let me do that defined me, shaped me, gave me purpose. I

Granted, I think it would have been more fun to be Colossus than Shadowcat.

He had the kind of face that belonged on billboards. Mine belonged on wanted posters.

But what kind of wolfhound would I be if I listened to my inner Chihuahua?

He grunted. "You're trivializing what getting out for a bit means to me, Harry. You're insulting my masculinity." "Bob," I said, "you're a skull. You don't have any masculinity to insult.

All it would cost me was my soul. And no, I'm not talking about anything magical or metaphysical. I'm talking about the core of my identity, about what makes Harry Dresden who and what he is. If I lost those things, the things that define me, then what would be left?

People who know diddly about wizards don't like to give us their names. They're convinced that if they give a wizard their name from their own lips it could be used against them. To be fair, they're right.