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Survivors can't always choose their methods.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Montana
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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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Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.
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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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Women are the bloodthirsty sex, said Ric sadly. We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, Kill it. Squish it.
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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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Wizards are a secretive lot.
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I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
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Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.
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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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Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—
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There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.
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Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.
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You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.
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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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I told them, he said in a clear, carrying voice, that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.
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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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Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.
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Do they always flirt with biblical quotes? Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We've learned to live with it. Get a room you guys.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.
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