Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)

by Jim Butcher

My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I’m a wizard.

Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn’t coming back?

There is no truer gauge of a man’s character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.