Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry." I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.

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.

Hercules, huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

Why should you boast? You are not saved by your works but by the grace of God.

One has to be careful, whenever one tells a story about a great injustice. We are a species that loves narrative, but has been taught not to trust an individual speaker.

We are all like cells within the body of the Universe/ God—as are plants, animals, air, natural resources and everything down to a subatomic level.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.