You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.

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.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite than believing that only you will go to heaven?

You can be prosecuted if you tell the truth about Islam.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.