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.

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'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.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

The most successful people I know are also the most reliable.

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.

ThunderClan warriors don't kill unless they have to

Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion

I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

Things were about as normal as a Luddite working for Bill Gates.’ – Sundown

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.