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Being a martyr is highly overrated.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Montana
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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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Yes, well, said his da with a hint of a grow that told him just how worried Bran had been about him, that'll teach you to dodge a bit quicker next time. Sorry, he apologized meekly as he sat in the passenger seat. Good, said Bran, shutting the door gently. Don't let it happen again. -Bran and Charles
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To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.
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Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.
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Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
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What do you mean?” Leslie’s voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
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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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I don't break I bounce.
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I thought Indians built fires with fiction. .... I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster.
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His voice was soft and sweet as molasses but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.
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A man learns with age, if he is lucky.
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There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.
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A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
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Survivors can't always choose their methods.
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Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.
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Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.
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Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.
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My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
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