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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
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Butte
Montana
Makes
Time
Idiots
Idiot
Fear

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You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.
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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 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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When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her
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I can't protect you from knowledge.
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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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Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.
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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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Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.
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Mercy, he said,in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.
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Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.
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