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A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Montana
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Age
Men

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The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.
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Any idiot can put up a website.
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He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.
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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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There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience
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Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)
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Being a martyr is highly overrated.
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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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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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Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.
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Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—
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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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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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Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to him, even though the moon was not full. She didn't speak to me, but Samuel had once described her song to me in the words of a poet. The expression of bliss on his face while he listened to her music made him beautiful.
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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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I like what you've done to your face, Ben said, tapping his eye.
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Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.
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That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me.” I nodded toward the mess. “And if you knew my life, you’d realize just how freaky that is.
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His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.
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You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.
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