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Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
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Sometimes
Think
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Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
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If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.
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When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
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She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door
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It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.
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Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.
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But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.
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Women are the bloodthirsty sex, said Ric sadly. We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, Kill it. Squish it.
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Mercy, he said,in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.
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Reincarnation?” He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.
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This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.
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