Cold Days (The Dresden Files, #14)

by Jim Butcher

“I’ve got a sextant, too.” “Any tent you have is a sex tent,”

“It’s better to know than not know,” I said quietly. “Why?” Mother Summer challenged. “Because you can’t truly make a choice without knowledge,

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.

So, ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless? I know it’s tempting to think to yourself, “The man can’t possibly be that stupid!” But yes. Yes, he can.

“Thwart,” I said. “To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.”