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Civilization is vastly overrated.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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Butte
Montana
Overrated
Civilization
Vastly

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There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said.
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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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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.
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Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.
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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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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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Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.
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Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.
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I like what you've done to your face, Ben said, tapping his eye.
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If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?
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One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)
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Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.
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Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
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I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.
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Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.
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