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I don't break I bounce.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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Butte
Montana
Bounce
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Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.
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Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
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Being a martyr is highly overrated.
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She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
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Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.
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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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Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.
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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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It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.
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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.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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Wizards are a secretive lot.
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I can't protect you from knowledge.
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Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.
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When we got to the moron who was sitting in the only path to the stairway, Adam caught my waist and lifted me over before stepping over the man himself. “Scott?” Adam said as we headed upstairs. “Yeah?” “Unless someone shoots you, skins you, and throws the results on the floor, I don’t want to see you lying in the walkway again.” “Yessir!
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I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.
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I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. One of the tentacle-monster ones. Most of them were X-rated and ended up with a lot of dead people.
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Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.
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I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.
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Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.
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