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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
Amazing
Things
People
Ensure
Survival

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To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.
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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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If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.
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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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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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Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.
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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 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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Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.
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Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies.
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Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.
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Is it like a Harry Potter thing? He turned his head then. A what? A Harry Potter thing, she said again. You know, don't say Voldemort's name because you might attract his attention? He considered it. You mean the children's book. I have got to get you to watch more movies, she said. You'd enjoy these. Yes, I mean the childr
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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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She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
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I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.
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A man learns with age, if he is lucky.
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Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
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Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac
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Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.
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Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.
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