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Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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Butte
Montana
Troubles
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Tomorrow
Trouble

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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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Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
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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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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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Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.
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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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I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.
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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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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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Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.
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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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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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Some people are boys longer than others.
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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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Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)
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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 was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.
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My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
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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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Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.
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