Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

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.

Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.

The door wasn’t closing. Shiloh’s spirit opened up as she considered the possibilities.

Nana’s oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana’s Passover brisket

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

I've been living, I've lived in New York since I was 18 years old and traveled pretty much all over the world.

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.