You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame." Sanya to Dresden

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.

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

Everybody has their days of misfortune.

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else.