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Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Butte
Montana
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Darling
Guests
Manners

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Anna followed, keeping a sharp eye out for things he might back into or over. She wondered if Isaac did this all the time-and, if so, how he avoided getting photos in the paper with captions like Local Alpha Trips Over Child or Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.
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A man's immortality can be found in his children.
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Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
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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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I like what you've done to your face, Ben said, tapping his eye.
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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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She was on the far side, leaving two cold feet of mattress between them. He knew that she'd fall asleep like that... and then gradually move over until she was plastered against him. Then he could go to sleep, too.
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Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
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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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Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
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Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.
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You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.
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If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.
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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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No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.
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If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?
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