Peace Talks (The Dresden Files, #16)

by Jim Butcher

“Only the young think being called old is an insult,” I said, still smiling. “I am what I am, regardless of what anyone calls it. No one can change it, regardless of what anyone calls it. And it mostly means that nothing has managed to kill me yet.”

You have to realize when you’ve reached the limits of what you can choose to do to change the situation.”

You can’t go around making people’s choices for them. Not if you love them.

At 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.