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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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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.
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I like what you've done to your face, Ben said, tapping his eye.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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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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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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Some people are boys longer than others.
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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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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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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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When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
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Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.
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Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.
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To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.
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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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Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
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Wizards are a secretive lot.
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Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies.
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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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Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
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