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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
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Butte
Montana
Dead
Dies
Whether
Past
Change
Hard
Things
Unless
Hold

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Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)
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You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.
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Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
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I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.
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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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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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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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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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Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .
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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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Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.
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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'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 in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.
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I don't break I bounce.
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Yes, well, said his da with a hint of a grow that told him just how worried Bran had been about him, that'll teach you to dodge a bit quicker next time. Sorry, he apologized meekly as he sat in the passenger seat. Good, said Bran, shutting the door gently. Don't let it happen again. -Bran and Charles
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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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Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.
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There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience
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Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
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