He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan

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.

Imagination is a storm of emotions that has the power to sweep citadels into the wind.

Every heart, it have its own ache.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

It's really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini.

In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less concerned with the product than with the artisan.

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.