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You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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Butte
Montana
Sacrifice
Cannot
Children
World

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Asil has appointed himself my guardian? asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself. He was bored, he told me, said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. I have given him a job so he doesn’t get bored again.
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Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.
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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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You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
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Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
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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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Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.
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A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man
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Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.
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Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.
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Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.
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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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Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.
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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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My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
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Reincarnation?” He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.
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You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.
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This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.
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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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