Cornick's Quotes

#1. 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.

Patricia Briggs

#2. There isn't a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.

Patricia Briggs

#3. My husband is very proud of me and what I do. Which I think is really sweet.

Nicola Cornick

#4. When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency ... Sophia something.

Nicola Cornick

#5. I'm a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with it!

Eva Longoria

#6. Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed - or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.

Patricia Briggs

#7. A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Ernest Gellner

#8. 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.

Patricia Briggs

#9. Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.

Jill Paton Walsh

#10. Anna: "I thought Indians built fires with fiction."
Charles: "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster.

Patricia Briggs

#11. I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

Emmylou Harris

#12. Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor
Why talk of anything else?

Rumi

#13. Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

Bonnie Tyler

#14. I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.

Paul Tillich

#15. This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing - and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.

Patricia Briggs

#16. New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won't hit Charles's mate in front of his father.

Patricia Briggs

#17. Charles could care less about shoes - and he suspected he wasn't alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn't care. Naked was good, though over the past couple of weeks he was beginning to think that dressed in his clothes was a decent second best.

Patricia Briggs

#18. Anna Campbell and I have already done a history tour of parts of the U.K., and it would be fun to invite my fellow Word Wench Cara Elliott along, too!

Nicola Cornick

#19. Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail."
She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. "And damned be he - she - who cries, 'Hold, enough!'"
"Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you," I told her, and she laughed.

Patricia Briggs

#20. If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she'd end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

Patricia Briggs

#21. 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.

Patricia Briggs

#22. I consider myself hugely privileged to work at such a wonderful place as Ashdown, where I can step back into history and be inspired by both the setting and the people associated with it.

Nicola Cornick

#23. I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.

Tim Tebow

#24. Illegitimis nil carborundum.

Patricia Briggs

#25. Apparently deciding Charles's brief introduction wasn't good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna -

Patricia Briggs

#26. 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.

Patricia Briggs

#27. Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning.

Patricia Briggs

#28. I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

Nicola Cornick

#29. I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal.

Janeane Garofalo

#30. Staying in Vegas would've been too easy for me.

Rutina Wesley

#31. You don't measure life by receiving awards.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#32. One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

Nicola Cornick

#33. And thus Charles found himself wandering around a hotel, trailing federal agents as he held a cardboard coffee cup holder in each hand, instead of out killing misbehaving werewolves.

Patricia Briggs

#34. 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

Patricia Briggs