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The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.
All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.
I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.
Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.
I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.
We have to leave!" I said to Vlad. "Now." "Run, Forest, run!" Vlad mocked. "Stow it, Drac," I snapped
Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!
No matter what happens, you will never lose me, I am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next.
I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.
Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.
I'm more of a dog person. But I admire cats and their ability to take so much while giving so little.
Builders think of success and failure as feedback. They don't judge either as a complete win or loss.
Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?
I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.
In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me.
The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler.
You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.
Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.
Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.
A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.
Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.
You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table.
Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.
The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.
The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.
Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.
He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.
What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.
Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?
How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?
We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.
There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.
Your future is co-created out of what you do today. Do you act from fear or faith? You get to choose.
Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.
Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.
I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.
Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.
Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.
Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.
Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.
Little did I realize that my desire to add value to others would be the thing that added value to me!
Leaders are less interested in their position and more interested in their positive impact on others.
Feelings and thoughts do not define who we are; they are just part of the weather of our inner world.
In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.
An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.