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It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Emerge
Mortals
Broken
Way
Life
Fling

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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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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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She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.
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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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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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To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.
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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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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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Being a martyr is highly overrated.
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Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.
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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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I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia. Hey, he's not that bad, Warren said. Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.
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Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.
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When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
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My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
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It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.
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Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
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