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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.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Change
Hard
Things
Unless
Hold
Dead
Dies
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Past

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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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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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Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.
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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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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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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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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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Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.
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Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.
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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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Charles looked at her thoughtfully. People talk to you, he said. That could be useful.
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I don't break I bounce.
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A man's immortality can be found in his children.
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No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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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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Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.
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That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me.” I nodded toward the mess. “And if you knew my life, you’d realize just how freaky that is.
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A man learns with age, if he is lucky.
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Anna followed, keeping a sharp eye out for things he might back into or over. She wondered if Isaac did this all the time-and, if so, how he avoided getting photos in the paper with captions like Local Alpha Trips Over Child or Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.
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