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People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.
Patricia Briggs
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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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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.
Patricia Briggs
It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.
Patricia Briggs
Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.
Patricia Briggs
Over the years, she'd learned not to question him to closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.
Patricia Briggs
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
Patricia Briggs
She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
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I don't break I bounce.
Patricia Briggs
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.
Patricia Briggs
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.
Patricia Briggs
I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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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.
Patricia Briggs
I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?
Patricia Briggs
Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .
Patricia Briggs
He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles
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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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Wolves eat coyotes, Gordon said[...] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have said to that. Yes, observed Adam blandly. I do. Yep. That was the one that came to mind. And he didn't even blush when he said it. Maybe Gordon would miss the double entendre. But he grinned cheerfully at Adam.
Patricia Briggs
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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Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)
Patricia Briggs
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.
Patricia Briggs
She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.
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