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Wizards are a secretive lot.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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Butte
Montana
Secretive
Wizards

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She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
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I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.
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He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.
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Anna followed, keeping a sharp eye out for things he might back into or over. She wondered if Isaac did this all the time-and, if so, how he avoided getting photos in the paper with captions like Local Alpha Trips Over Child or Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.
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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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Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them.
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If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?
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When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
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Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.
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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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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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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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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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Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac
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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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Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.
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I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.
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A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man
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