I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

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.

I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!

Lord's love manifests in this world as compasssion.

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize.

Listen to the sound of waves within you.

What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?

To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.

The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.