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Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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Montana
Sword
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Knowledge
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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.
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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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I can't protect you from knowledge.
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One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)
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To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.
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People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.
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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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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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I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.
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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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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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A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man
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My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
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Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.
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If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.
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His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.
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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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Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
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Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.
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I'm not threatening to kill myself. But you need to know this about me because—if you want to be my mate—I won't be like Leo. I won't let you sleep around with anyone else. I won't be forced either. I've had enough. If that makes me a dog in the manger, so be it. But if I am yours, then you damned well are going to be mine. - Anna to Charles
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