Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.

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.

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Anyone can say the love someone....It's loving someone enough to let them go that will prove that love.

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

What touches our hearts and impresses us deeper is sacrifice and humility, when we see someone accept the higher principle of cooperation, putting aside his/her own achievements.

Matter of fact, the interesting friendships are the ones that are divergent.