My hair had grown out long and shaggy—not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.

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.

There is no time for regrets. Regrets relate to the past. We have been there. We need to progress to the future.

Cammie: I never knew there were this many stars. Zach: I can't see them. I just see you.

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

Papa, please get the moon for me.

Work at being a humble person.

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.