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Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea.” “Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Montana
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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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Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.
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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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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
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Civilization is vastly overrated.
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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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Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
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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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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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I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.
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Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.
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Do they always flirt with biblical quotes? Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We've learned to live with it. Get a room you guys.
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I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.
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Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
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Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.
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But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.
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Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.
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If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.
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I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. One of the tentacle-monster ones. Most of them were X-rated and ended up with a lot of dead people.
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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