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I don't get mad, I get even.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Even
Mad

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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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It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.
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Coffee or orange juice?” “Water is fine.” His eyebrows went up. “Uh-oh,” Auriele said, but she was smiling. Darryl was not. “Are you implying that my coffee is not the best in four counties? Or my fresh-squeezed orange juice is less than perfect?
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It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.
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Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.
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You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
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Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.
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But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.
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If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.
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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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Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.
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What do you mean?” Leslie’s voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day.
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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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You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.
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The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.
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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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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles
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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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I like what you've done to your face, Ben said, tapping his eye.
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