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A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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Butte
Montana
Risk
Nothing
Men
Love

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Over the years, she'd learned not to question him to closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.
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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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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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I don't get mad, I get even.
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Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.
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There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience
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I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.
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His voice was soft and sweet as molasses but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.
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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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Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.
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Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.
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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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Reincarnation?” He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.
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There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.
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Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
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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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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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You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.
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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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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.
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