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A man's immortality can be found in his children.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Butte
Montana
Children
Men
Immortality
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Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.
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Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
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My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
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Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
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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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Survivors can't always choose their methods.
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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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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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My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
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She was on the far side, leaving two cold feet of mattress between them. He knew that she'd fall asleep like that... and then gradually move over until she was plastered against him. Then he could go to sleep, too.
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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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There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.
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Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
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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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People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.
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Some people are boys longer than others.
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Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.
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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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Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.
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Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to him, even though the moon was not full. She didn't speak to me, but Samuel had once described her song to me in the words of a poet. The expression of bliss on his face while he listened to her music made him beautiful.
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