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I can't protect you from knowledge.

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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Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
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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 think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia. Hey, he's not that bad, Warren said. Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.
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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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Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
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But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.
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Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.
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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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My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
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That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.
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Charles looked at her thoughtfully. People talk to you, he said. That could be useful.
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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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Asil has appointed himself my guardian? asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself. He was bored, he told me, said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. I have given him a job so he doesn’t get bored again.
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Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)
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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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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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It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.
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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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If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.
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Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them.
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