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Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.
Patricia Briggs
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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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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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I don't break I bounce.
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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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Reincarnation?” He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.
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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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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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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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I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?
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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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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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He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.
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A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
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I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.
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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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It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.
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His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.
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