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Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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Butte
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Fussy
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Cars
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I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.
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If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?
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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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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.
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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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She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
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Charles looked at her thoughtfully. People talk to you, he said. That could be useful.
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There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said.
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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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A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
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Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.
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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.
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