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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
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Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
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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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I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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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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Asil has appointed himself my guardian? asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself. He was bored, he told me, said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. I have given him a job so he doesn’t get bored again.
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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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I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.
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Some people are boys longer than others.
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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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I don’t think you’re supposed to be able to get at that information,” said Leslie. “Don’t look,” said Goldstein, peering over Charles’s shoulder. “We don’t know anything about illegal hacking.” He whistled cheerily.
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I don't get mad, I get even.
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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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If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?
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Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
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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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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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