Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

by Kevin Hearne

Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You’re obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

All the earth wants ye to do is thrive, and ye feel that love whenever ye contact an elemental.

I wondered why people who believed in the next life were so anxious to start living it instead of enjoying the one they had.

What I should be doing was the same thing everyone should be doing: enjoying the blessings I have while I have them, instead of worrying that one day they will be gone.