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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
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Butte
Montana
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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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If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?
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Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.
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Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live. Did she? Charles looked at her, and she saw the approval in his face. She doubted anyone else would have read anything at all. His voice was a caress, just for her. Would you like that, love?
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Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.
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Wizards are a secretive lot.
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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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Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.
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I like what you've done to your face, Ben said, tapping his eye.
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You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.
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But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.
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If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?
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Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions. She was lecturing him, so she stopped. Sorry. Hang around with Bran too long, and see if you don’t start passing around the Marrok’s advice as if he were Confucius.
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I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.
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Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies.
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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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Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to him, even though the moon was not full. She didn't speak to me, but Samuel had once described her song to me in the words of a poet. The expression of bliss on his face while he listened to her music made him beautiful.
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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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