Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

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.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.

The present was better. Much, much better. Humans had coffee now. And gelato.

Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever.

There are no justified resentments.