Mercy Thompson Quotes

#1. Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

Patricia Briggs

#2. Three women bonding over household chores - my mother would be pleased if she could see us. That thought hardened my resolve that next week, some of the men would do cleanup. It would be good for them to expand their skill set.

Patricia Briggs

#3. 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.

Patricia Briggs

#4. Part of living is understanding where the fringes are. Once you know how far people go, you can say, "Well, here's how I choose to represent myself."

Morgan Spurlock

#5. Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot.

Patricia Briggs

#6. Our love was a river, always changing under the mercy of nature's elements, but we continued to flow, even when we trickled.

Shannon A. Thompson

#7. I break things, a lot of things, but I don't want one of them to be you.

Patricia Briggs

#8. The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Bernard Baruch

#9. You are a sick, sick man," I told him.
"Thank you," Ben replied, looking modest.

Patricia Briggs

#10. 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

#11. 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.

Patricia Briggs

#12. Coffee or orange juice?"
"Water is fine."
His eyebrows went up.
"Uh-oh," Auriele said, but she was smiling.
Darryl was not. "Are you implying that my coffee is not the best in four counties? Or my fresh-squeezed orange juice is less than perfect?

Patricia Briggs

#13. 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.

Patricia Briggs

#14. Don't try threatening an Alpha. They don't like it.

Patricia Briggs

#15. Mercedes," said Asil in a cheerful voice. "You are going to get me killed at last. Bran would not do it, but I believe your mate will have no trouble.

Patricia Briggs

#16. Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it's there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun.

Tom Giaquinto

#17. Sending me into a climax that left me wrecked in body and whole in spirit.

Patricia Briggs

#18. I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy
I was so screwed.

Patricia Briggs

#19. My love," he said, his voice intent, "you are welcome to all that I am, all that I have. I would destroy the planet for you. I was even diplomatic for you, which was a bigger sacrifice. A little power drain is nothing.

Patricia Briggs

#20. Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

Patricia Briggs

#21. You're a dead man," Kyle said. "Warren doesn't take kindly to people who hurt me.

Patricia Briggs

#22. 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?

Patricia Briggs

#23. Zack shook his head. "I am glad you aren't mine. You're going to be dead before you're forty."
"No," rumbled my husband's soft deep voice from the hallway. "I'm going to be dead before she's forty.

Patricia Briggs

#24. Mercy," he mumbled. "What the hell did you do to my French Roast?

Patricia Briggs

#25. Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified ...

Patricia Briggs

#26. Werewolves usually have markings that are more doglike than wolflike. I don't know why. Bran,
the Marrok, has a splash of white on his tail, as though he'd dipped it in a bucket of paint. I think it's
cute - but I'd never had the nerve to tell him so.

Patricia Briggs

#27. God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

Hunter S. Thompson

#28. And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

Octavia Butler

#29. When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.

Billy Porter

#30. Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them.

Patricia Briggs

#31. 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.

Patricia Briggs

#32. 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.

Patricia Briggs

#33. If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Arthur Baer

#34. That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me." I nodded toward the mess. "And if you knew my life, you'd realize just how freaky that is.

Patricia Briggs

#35. Most of the pack would rather have Darryl mad at them than Auriele.

Patricia Briggs