Quote

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.

Patricia Briggs

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Would
Best
Wolf
Able
Protecting
Book
Interfere
Need
Encourage
Needs
Benefit
Every
Benefits
Way
Kill
Things
Protect
Interfering

More quotes by Patricia Briggs

Image
My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.
Patricia Briggs
Image
Mercy, he said,in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.
Patricia Briggs
Image
Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
Patricia Briggs
Image
I don’t think you’re supposed to be able to get at that information,” said Leslie. “Don’t look,” said Goldstein, peering over Charles’s shoulder. “We don’t know anything about illegal hacking.” He whistled cheerily.
Patricia Briggs
Image
It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.
Patricia Briggs
Image
It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.
Patricia Briggs
Image
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
Patricia Briggs
Image
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.
Patricia Briggs
Image
If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?
Patricia Briggs
Image
Civilization is vastly overrated.
Patricia Briggs
Image
If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.
Patricia Briggs
Image
If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.
Patricia Briggs
Image
Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies.
Patricia Briggs
Image
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
Image
I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.
Patricia Briggs
Image
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.
Patricia Briggs
Image
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.
Patricia Briggs
Image
Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.
Patricia Briggs
Image
Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .
Patricia Briggs
Image
Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach,” I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. “ ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.
Patricia Briggs