I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

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.

Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?

The real world is where the monsters are.

You are freaking me out!" she said with a nervous laugh. "Who are you, and what have you done with Quinn Shaughnessy?

Happy the man who knows his duties!

I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

For a man's house is his castle.

Home is where your teapots are.

All I remember about the examination is that there was a question on Sturm's theorem about equations, which I could not do then and cannot do now.

Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?

Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you