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Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Living
Death
Cannot
Without
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Defeat
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Victory
Life
Challenges
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I can't protect you from knowledge.
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Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
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Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been happier if he hadn't sounded scared. Easy, Warren, Adam told him. You're safe here.” If you die on us, you won't be, said Kyle with a growl that would have done credit to any of the werewolves in the room.
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A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
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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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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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Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
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I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia. Hey, he's not that bad, Warren said. Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.
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Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
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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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Coffee or orange juice?” “Water is fine.” His eyebrows went up. “Uh-oh,” Auriele said, but she was smiling. Darryl was not. “Are you implying that my coffee is not the best in four counties? Or my fresh-squeezed orange juice is less than perfect?
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His voice was soft and sweet as molasses but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.
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Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.
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A man learns with age, if he is lucky.
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