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Survivors can't always choose their methods.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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Butte
Montana
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Always
Survivors
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You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.
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She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
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Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea.” “Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.
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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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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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There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said.
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My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.
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She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.
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Mercy, he said,in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.
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Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.
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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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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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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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Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.
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He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.
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A man's immortality can be found in his children.
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Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.
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But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.
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I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
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She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door
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