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I told them, he said in a clear, carrying voice, that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.
Patricia Briggs
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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Wolves eat coyotes, Gordon said[...] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have said to that. Yes, observed Adam blandly. I do. Yep. That was the one that came to mind. And he didn't even blush when he said it. Maybe Gordon would miss the double entendre. But he grinned cheerfully at Adam.
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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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He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.
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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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Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to him, even though the moon was not full. She didn't speak to me, but Samuel had once described her song to me in the words of a poet. The expression of bliss on his face while he listened to her music made him beautiful.
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