If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

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.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes

I never listened to country music growing up.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.

Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.

The more competition and the more voices - that's why I love bloggers and anything else the Internet can produce in the way of new news voices.

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?