Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

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I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

It had been a long time since i dared call anyone a friend. The concept was only theoretical to me now.

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.

The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset!

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

I never read in bed, only in my study.

Anger is fear in disguise.