Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15)

by Jim Butcher

Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, was wearing a tailored business suit somewhere between the color of smeared charcoal on newsprint and frozen periwinkles.

“You need to decide which side of the road you’re going to walk on,” she said gently. “Turn aside from your fears—or grab onto them and run with them. But you need to make the call. You keep trying to walk down the middle, you’re going to get yourself torn apart.”

“You think your power is what shapes the world you walk in. But that is an illusion. Your choices shape your world.