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Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Idiots
Idiot
Fear
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Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.
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You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.
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Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .
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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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A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man
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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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Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.
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Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.
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Women are the bloodthirsty sex, said Ric sadly. We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, Kill it. Squish it.
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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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I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
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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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I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?
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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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Wizards don't all look alike.
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You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.
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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 think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia. Hey, he's not that bad, Warren said. Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.
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My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
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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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