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Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Without
Flourishes
Runs
Manners
Logic
Running
Truth

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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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A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man
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He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.
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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.
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Samuel laughed out loud. You still haven't figured it out, have you, Mercy? He never was mad about the car. He was the first one at the scene of the accident. He thought you'd killed yourself. We all did. That was a pretty spectacular wreck.
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I thought Indians built fires with fiction. .... I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster.
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Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
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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.
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There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.
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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.
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Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.
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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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Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.
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She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.
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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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Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.
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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.
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People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.
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If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music.
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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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