Top 100 Patricia Briggs Quotes
#2. So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.
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#4. 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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#5. Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.
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#6. Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming
and they ate children and puppies.
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#7. The snarl didn't make Adam's too-handsome features less handsome, but it would probably have scared anyone else. Me? I think I have some kind of subliminal death wish because Adam's anger makes me go weak at the knees, and not in a terrified sort of way.
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#8. 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.
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#9. His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.
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#10. 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.
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#11. There is something about having someone take care of you, even when you don't need it - maybe especially when you don't need it.
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#12. We are all monsters here, he said. It's too late for any of us to be anything else.
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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. Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
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#15. Fear is a good thing. It teaches you not to make the same mistake twice. You counter it with knowledge.
- Bran
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#16. He'd woken up after flying from Boston to Montana to find his da cooking breakfast for them: sausage and pancakes shaped like deer. It wasn't just any deer, either - they looked like Bambi from the disney cartoon. Charles didn't want to know how his father had managed that
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#17. I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word 'women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia."
"Hey, he's not that bad," Warren said. "Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.
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#19. God help us and keep us from receiving what we deserve
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#20. Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.
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#21. I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine." He closed his eyes and laughed. "And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women's Liberation Movement's list of things not to say to a modern woman.
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#22. Things change whether you want them to, or not
unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.
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#23. Jesse sucked in her breath, and said, "It's a TARDIS." "A what?" asked Aiden. "Bigger on the inside than it is on the outside," Jesse said. She
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#24. I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.
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#25. 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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#27. You going to watch my butt all day, or are you going to join me?" asked my mate.
"What if I had said I was going to watch your butt all day?" I asked curiously as I opened the door an stepped into the hot water.
"I've been considering belly-dancing lessons," he told me in a serious voice.
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#28. Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.
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#29. 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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#31. It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.
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#32. Staying in that house alone didn't appeal to me - some ghost hunter I was. Nothing had happened, and I was already jumpy.
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#33. 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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#34. Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest," Adam told him. He had decided a while ago that it wasn't deliberate, and that it had something to do with being Coyote's daughter. He was pretty sure that Mercy was completely oblivious.
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#35. 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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#36. My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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#37. I think I'll just go take a shower, I said.
It wasn't until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I'd just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal.
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#38. Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don't get in their way without expecting to be hurt.
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#40. The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.
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#41. Honor, duty, and love. He would not sacrifice Anna for his father and all the other werewolves in existence. Given a choice, he chose love.
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#42. I only knew that Adam was hurt, and I wasn't there to make him safe.
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#43. If fourteen people believe they were Cleopatra in a former life, does that mean that Cleopatra had split personality disorder?
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#44. She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.
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#45. Who hurt you?" she asked, slicing through the two other conversations going on at the table. "He's dead," said Charles, his hand sliding up Anna's back reassuringly. "I killed him. If I could, I would bring him back to life so I could kill him again.
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#47. He put his chin on the top of my head. "I know." He wrapped both arms around me just above my chest and pulled me against him. - Stefan (Bone Crossed)
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#49. 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.
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#50. If you want to stay here, that's something different. But thinking that you are the only one who can possibly keep her company - that's a trap. (p. 320)
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#51. Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.
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#53. You scratch whatever itches you choose," Charles told her, his voice cold and quiet."Enjoy yourself. But at the end of the day, you remember that Isaac belongs to my father - and to me. He is necessary to us as you are not. You will leave him unharmed or I will hunt you down and destroy you.
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#54. 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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#55. Are you going to tell me what that was about?" Adam asked as we went back upstairs.
"Sometime," I told him. "When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.
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#56. Got my country's five hundredth anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it,
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#57. Your ability to survive anything that gets thrown at you sometimes leaves the rest of us swallowing ulcer medication for days afterward. I don't like the taste of Maalox.
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#58. People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.
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#59. To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.
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#60. You're a dead man," Kyle said. "Warren doesn't take kindly to people who hurt me.
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#61. You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.
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#62. I'm a mechanic; I fix things that are broken. I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote. I have powerful friends. But when it comes right down to it, my real superpower is chaos." -Mercy
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#63. Maia was either going to grow up to rule the world or loose a planetwide plague upon the land. Maybe both.
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#64. 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.
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#66. Honey will wipe the floor with you." His eyes went half-mast, and his voice dropped in evident pleasure. "I know.
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#67. We're the good guys. That we're scary doesn't mean we're the villains.
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#68. 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
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#69. 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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#70. I know that, too," he said, his voice tender. "You should know that you can't hide things from me."
"Good," I said, my voice fierce. "Good. Then you know, you know I love you.
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#72. The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don't. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don't want to talk.
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#73. 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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#74. His arm pulled her a little off balance, and paradoxically it steadied her at the same time. That was what Charles did to her heart, too. He knocked it off balance into what felt like the right position, a safe place that was still exciting, exhilarating, and terrifying.
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#75. If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn't?
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#76. If you could just see your face," she told me. "You look like a cat in a bathtub.
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#77. And it was easier to have an unrequited love than to get all fussed and dressed and go out on dates every Saturday with men she was never going to fall in love with. So she'd quit dating, quit dressing up - and on the whole she was happier than she'd been before.
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#78. Mercy," he mumbled. "What the hell did you do to my French Roast?
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#79. Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on Earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else. (Hao)
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#80. You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.
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#82. Anna looked at Brother Wolf. 'I'd like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.
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#83. Mercy?"
"Just a minute," I told Adam. "I'm in the middle of a revelation.
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#84. 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.
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#85. Can you hear the silence? It's the good kind of silence, not the silence that listens back.
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#86. My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
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#87. Holy Avon, Batman, I thought as worry relaxed into annoyance-tinged humor, I've been attacked by a multilevel marketer.
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#88. Take it from me, anyone who lives with you is occasionally going to wonder who your liver might taste, and not because they are hungry. It comes with being a teenager - you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty.
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#90. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
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#92. 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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#94. 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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#97. 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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#99. 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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#100. We watched the rest of the movie without talking. When it was over, Bran said, I love you."
I said, " I know." Adam nudged me with his shoulder, and I laughed. "I love you, too.
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