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I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
Patricia Briggs
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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.
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That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me.” I nodded toward the mess. “And if you knew my life, you’d realize just how freaky that is.
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I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?
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The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.
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Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .
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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.
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But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.
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Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)
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Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
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I don't break I bounce.
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Survivors can't always choose their methods.
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She was on the far side, leaving two cold feet of mattress between them. He knew that she'd fall asleep like that... and then gradually move over until she was plastered against him. Then he could go to sleep, too.
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Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—
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She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.
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It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.
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He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.
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Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach,” I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. “ ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.
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Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.
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I don't get mad, I get even.
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