Battle Ground (The Dresden Files, #17)

by Jim Butcher

you know the difference between courage and foolhardiness, Dresden?” “Any insurance adjuster would say no.” He waved a hand at my banter, as though that was all the acknowledgment it deserved. “Hindsight,” he said. “Until the extended consequences of any action are known, it is both courageous and foolish. And neither.”

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.

Don’t care how Titanic you are. No one expects an orbital-drop grizzly.