Your head is full of kelp.

He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Humans see what they want to see.

Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

The real world is where the monsters are.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

i held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants.

Passion for books is the desire to read.

As fire, though one, takes the shape of every object which it consumes, so the Self, though one, takes the shape of every object in which it dwells. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

We always get help we ask for.

What is most admirable about firefighters, is there reliability. When they are called, they come

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children - except in self-defense.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Control success before it controls you.

My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.

Morning, sunshine." Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid." "Pardon me?" "Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?