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I don't break I bounce.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Butte
Montana
Bounce
Break

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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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If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.
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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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My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
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There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.
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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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Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.
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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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It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.
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Charles looked at her thoughtfully. People talk to you, he said. That could be useful.
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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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Being a martyr is highly overrated.
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I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.
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Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.
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I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.
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Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .
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Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.
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I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.
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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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You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.
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