Top 100 Patricia Briggs Quotes
#1. Her pink hair helped her cheerful act - hard to look sad with pink hair - even if her eyes were a little pink, too.
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#2. Are you done yet?" called Isaac.
Charles tilted his head and called back, "I suppose that's why they call you the five-mintue wonder.
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#3. 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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#5. 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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#6. If you leave me naked and waiting on the bed without making love to me, I'll - " I didn't get to finish the threat. I think it was the word "naked," though maybe it was "bed," but before I finished my sentence, he was on me. Mercy to Adam
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#8. I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.
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#9. Can you hear the silence? It's the good kind of silence, not the silence that listens back.
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#11. 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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#12. Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
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#13. Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified ...
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#14. Might not be able to save you, old son," Adam said, lying back again and closing his eyes. "But I can buy us a little time to kick you in the butt hard enough you stop thinking about 'tomorrow and tomorrow' and start thinking about how much but hurts.
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#16. 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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#17. My soul was a lot more battered than my body, but I couldn't see it in the mirror. Hopefully no one else could either.
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#18. Congratulations, Christy. You just met one of the weird things in the world that don't fit neatly into the fae or werewolf category."
"Weird like you," said Christy.
"Well, yes," I agreed. "I thought that went without saying. Weird things like me.
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#19. Laeth returned her smile with one as wicked, as he posed the favorite question of one of the combat instructors, "How many ways are there to kill a person with a knife?"
"It doesn't matter, it only takes one to do the job," returned Rialla.
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#20. Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.
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#21. People who know other people's secrets can't afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.
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#22. No, really," I said. "Now that we know that Flores is really this nasty, fiery, superpowerful nothing-can-kill-me demon from hell, maybe we should consider just giving Christy to him?
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#23. Dragons and legends ... It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.
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#24. I thought it would be quieter here." [Anna] hadn't meant to say anything, but the noise startled her.
"The wind in the trees," Bran said. "And there are some birds that stay year-round. Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.
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#25. There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience
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#26. There was another pause, then the Marrok said in that light pleasant tone that warned everyone who knew him that all hell was about to break loose.
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#29. She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door
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#30. I grew up in Montana, where an old, unregistered rifle was worth a lot more than a new gun whose ownership could be traced. Not that the gun owners in Montana are planning on committing crimes with their unregistered guns - they just don't like the federal government knowing their every move.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Charles sat in lone splendor on a huge couch in the middle of Angus's spacious living room
while the other ten or twelve people present made themselves at home on the other side of the room.
Anna surveyed the scene. "Okay," she said. "Who's been being a grouch?
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#33. But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.
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#35. Suddenly I don't feel so bad at being rescued by a rabbit,
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#36. If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.
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#37. It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.
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#38. Only you could go to Spokane and get bitten by the one vampire in the whole city
Adam to Mercy
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#39. Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.
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#40. Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.
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#41. Why is it that in all the adventure movies the heroine doesn't have to get up and go to work?
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#43. Want to play some Battleship?
I wasn't leaving him alone with that thing in there.
Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.
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#44. 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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#45. He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone.
Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.
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#46. Anna stabbed her with the dagger she'd concealed in Tom's jacket. Under the ribs and through the heart--just like her favorite forensic TV show had taught her.
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#48. It'll take years of therapy. Probably for all of us: a long uphill battle. But we're still on the field fighting the good fight, battered and beaten though we are, and I understand just what a great gift that is.
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#50. Death is not to be feared. Death is easy. It is living that is brutal.
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#51. I borrowed a hammer and the garage and disposed of both phones. I was pretty sure that I could have just pulled the batteries, but pretty sure wasn't good enough, so I used a hammer.
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#52. I thought you couldn't make it here until morning," I said.
"I hurried.
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#53. Adam snorted as he pulled on a faded green t-shirt that said "I Heart Coyotes." Yet another sign that folding my clean clothes wasn't too big a price to pay to make him happy. He didn't have any "I Heart Christy " shirts or I would have burned them already.
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#54. Bran was always a deceptive bastard, gentle and mild right up until he ripped your throat out. He had many other fine qualities as well.
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#55. Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred.
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#56. 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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#57. I'm not worried about her coming between us," I told him truthfully. "I'm worried about her hurting you and Jesse. Hurting the pack. But that's better than letting her face whatever it is on her own.
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#59. Until I met him today." He turned to Jes. "Who is the forest
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#60. That is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
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#61. The Cantrip agents were more interesting. He didn't know as much about Cantrip, as it was an even newer agency than Homeland Security, having come into being when the werewolves outed themselves.
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#63. 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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#65. 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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#66. C'est moi, c'est moi,'tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn't know if he'd catch the reference. I shouldn't have worried.
Unexpectedly, he laughed. Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.
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#67. We hadn't brought a tent. Even if it rained, we couldn't afford to blind ourselves like that when we slept.
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#68. After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say of course eating him would work too.
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#69. Mr. Francis hired a witch to make a zombie to kill me?
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#70. Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons
like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.
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#71. I don't think you're supposed to be able to get at that information," said Leslie.
"Don't look," said Goldstein, peering over Charles's shoulder. "We don't know anything about illegal hacking." He whistled cheerily.
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#72. I'm a wolf ma'am. Not a cat. I don't play around with my prey.
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#73. A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.
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#74. He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopeless a thing as it might have been.
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#75. When things started to get dangerous, it was important to have people who knew as much as you did. That way, when you stupidly got yourself killed, someone would have a starting place to look for your murderer.
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#76. Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.
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#78. If you don't stop playing with that dress, I'm going to rip it right off of you, and we won't be heading for dinner.
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#79. It is proper that men listen to the counsel of women. (Coyote)
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#80. Almost-Sister, you picked a real catch."
"It was I who caught her," Adam said softly. "It took years.
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#81. There isn't a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.
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#82. Too much knowledge can make you paranoid all the time,
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#83. Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.
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#84. I see your fear, they told her, but no harm will come to you by me.
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#86. Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.
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#87. It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.
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#89. I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.
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#90. The wolf wanted to bed her and claim her as his own. Being of a more cautious nature than his wolf, he would wait until he knew her a little better before deciding to court her.
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#91. Fifty men will accompany you, fighting under your command."
"I can't take them,' said Beckram. "Haverness only has leave for a hundred men. I believe I'm the eighty-fifth."
"You'll take them," said Duraugh, standing up. "The Blue Guard's mottos is 'We fight as one." You will only be one.
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#92. Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come.
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#95. Apparently Coyote has a habit of showing up when he finds one of us - his descendants - interesting." Adam laughed ruefully. "Shouldn't take you long, then.
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#96. New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won't hit Charles's mate in front of his father.
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#97. If you touch me, Charles will hunt you down and eat your marrow while you are still alive to scream." She called upon her two acting classes and let her mouth turn up. "I'll be happy to watch." She licked her lips. The smile dropped off his face, and he growled.
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#98. Just then Warren's breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right?
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#99. Just as I've always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I've always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.
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#100. He has taken she who is mine, so I shall take from him, she who is his. Balance. Only then will I take his life
and that is vengeance. (Juan Flores)
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