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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.
Patricia Briggs
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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.
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Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.
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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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Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
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Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.
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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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I liked Lost in Space,” Stefan said. “The movie or the TV series?” “The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie,” he said soberly. “It was better that way.
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Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
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The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.
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He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles
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Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.
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Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.
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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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If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.
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What do you mean?” Leslie’s voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day.
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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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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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Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
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Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.
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