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I can't protect you from knowledge.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her
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Is it like a Harry Potter thing? He turned his head then. A what? A Harry Potter thing, she said again. You know, don't say Voldemort's name because you might attract his attention? He considered it. You mean the children's book. I have got to get you to watch more movies, she said. You'd enjoy these. Yes, I mean the childr
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I liked Lost in Space,” Stefan said. “The movie or the TV series?” “The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie,” he said soberly. “It was better that way.
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You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
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I like what you've done to your face, Ben said, tapping his eye.
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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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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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He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles
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My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
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Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.
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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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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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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. One of the tentacle-monster ones. Most of them were X-rated and ended up with a lot of dead people.
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Charles looked at her thoughtfully. People talk to you, he said. That could be useful.
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It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?
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Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.
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Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.
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