Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly.

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.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

an English girl might well believethat time is how you spend your love.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.

Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.

I appreciate everything that I have, versus taking it for granted.

But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.

What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.

If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.

Since I was 13, I've been buying things because they are ridiculously cheap.