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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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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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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.
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Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .
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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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He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.
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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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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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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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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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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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Charles looked at her thoughtfully. People talk to you, he said. That could be useful.
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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 would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.
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Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
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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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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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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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Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.
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