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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
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Ensure
Survival
Amazing
Things
People

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Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.
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He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.
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Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.
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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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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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Over the years, she'd learned not to question him to closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.
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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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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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I thought Indians built fires with fiction. .... I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster.
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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.
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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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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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A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man
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One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)
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She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
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When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
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It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.
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I liked Lost in Space,” Stefan said. “The movie or the TV series?” “The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie,” he said soberly. “It was better that way.
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It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.
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Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.
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