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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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People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.
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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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Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them.
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Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been happier if he hadn't sounded scared. Easy, Warren, Adam told him. You're safe here.” If you die on us, you won't be, said Kyle with a growl that would have done credit to any of the werewolves in the room.
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Stefan: Indian with a dot, not a feather.
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You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.
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Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live. Did she? Charles looked at her, and she saw the approval in his face. She doubted anyone else would have read anything at all. His voice was a caress, just for her. Would you like that, love?
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He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.
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Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.
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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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I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.
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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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When we got to the moron who was sitting in the only path to the stairway, Adam caught my waist and lifted me over before stepping over the man himself. “Scott?” Adam said as we headed upstairs. “Yeah?” “Unless someone shoots you, skins you, and throws the results on the floor, I don’t want to see you lying in the walkway again.” “Yessir!
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Asil has appointed himself my guardian? asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself. He was bored, he told me, said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. I have given him a job so he doesn’t get bored again.
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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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Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .
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My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.
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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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