Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes

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.

The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

If I were you I'd put that away. See you're just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling you'll be okay.

The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.

And when he kisses me it feels a bit like fear and tastes a bit like tears,  but it’s as bright and sweet as sherbet, and I decide to call it joy.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Explanations are for cowards.

I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart.

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there