Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

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.

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's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

....And let me tell you something about families they're overrated. They're a weakness. The leave you or get taken from you or they disappoint you. Families are a liability.

If you dare to lose, you will dare to win.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Before strongly desiring anything we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Love is a hole in the heart.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

The first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity.

A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.