For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

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.

If you expect the battle to be insurmountable, you've met the enemy.It's you.

Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God’s help.

[Lily] "Petunia's hair is too curly to braid, " She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.

In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.

You find the wrong boy, you ask for trouble. You find the right boy, you find love.

But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.

It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.