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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
Present
Past
Live
Sometimes
Think
Thinking
Closely

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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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Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.
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I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.
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I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.
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Wizards are a secretive lot.
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Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.
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Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.
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Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.
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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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I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.
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A man's immortality can be found in his children.
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Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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I don't get mad, I get even.
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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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