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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
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Idiots
Idiot
Fear
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Samuel laughed out loud. You still haven't figured it out, have you, Mercy? He never was mad about the car. He was the first one at the scene of the accident. He thought you'd killed yourself. We all did. That was a pretty spectacular wreck.
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When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
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Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been happier if he hadn't sounded scared. Easy, Warren, Adam told him. You're safe here.” If you die on us, you won't be, said Kyle with a growl that would have done credit to any of the werewolves in the room.
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Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
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I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.
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Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.
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There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.
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You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.
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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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