Quotes About Briar

#1. Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened."
"You're as old as him, and you aren't scared of us," Briar pointed out.
Niko glared at him. "Thank you so much," he retorted waspishly.

Tamora Pierce

#2. But it seemed to Tristan as though an ardent briar, sharp-thorned but with flower most sweet smelling drave roots into his blood and laced the lovely body of Iseult all round about it and bound it to his own and to his every though and desire.

Joseph Bedier

#3. He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own.
- Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage

Tamora Pierce

#4. We've both been broken." He paused, letting go of my hands, and moved his up to hold my face in his palms. "But Briar, I love every shredded piece.

Bayli Lane

#5. I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.

P. J. Soles

#6. Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.

Charles Kuralt

#7. Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

John D. Voelker

#8. Briar Greyson, in the bedroom, with the letter opener.

Kelley York

#9. We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar.

Thomm Quackenbush

#10. Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Emily Bronte

#11. Briar Rose awakens to grace us with her gentle presence once more."
"Shut up," says Vol.
"Your thorns are showing.

Nenia Campbell

#12. And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know."
Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?

Tamora Pierce

#14. Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!

Joel Chandler Harris

#15. Sweet-briar and southern-wood, jasmine, pink, and rose have long been yielding their evening sacrifice of incense: this new scent is neither of shrub nor flower; it is - I know it well - it is Mr. Rochester's cigar.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. I have a treasured set of matched grain crosscut horns made for me by master American carver Jim Cooke, cut yin-yang from the same block of briar he waited five years to find.

Rick Newcombe

#17. She got to her feet and tucked her fingers into her armpits to warm them, glaring at Briar and Parahan as she walked over to the mules. It wasn't fair that men didn't have to twist themselves into knots to pee!

Tamora Pierce

#18. Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max

James Patterson

#19. Briar thrust a crystal cup with a silver spoon into Apple's hands. "Whipped air. Try it. Totally invisible and totally good." Apple dipped the spoon into the empty cup and touched it to her tongue. The nothingness tasted like chocolate-raspberry swirl. "Mm, this is amazing.

Shannon Hale

#20. It was time to work on his trees, to brew medicines and weed the rooftop plants before he forgot who he really was in all this running around. (Briar)

Tamora Pierce

#21. On the weekends. He'd mentioned a place called Sweet Briar where he met other scientists. She felt the trailer's absence

Barbara Kingsolver

#22. I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

Robert W. Service

#23. It was my jewelry! Briar shouted after his father because he'd forgotten to ask what was stolen.

Shannon Hale

#24. She married the prince
and all went well
except for the fear
the fear of sleep.
Briar Rose
was an insomniac ...
She could not nap
or lie in sleep
without the court chemist
mixing her some knock-out drops
and never in the prince's presence.

Anne Sexton

#25. Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least."
Briar: "No - if she bit him, he'd die.

Tamora Pierce

#26. Briar stood, pushing up her sleeves. 'It's about to get all nonfiction in here'.

Shannon Hale

#27. If I'd been a thorn in Mother's side, Angelina would be the whole briar patch.

Sue Monk Kidd

#28. Just remember that you can't always do everything, but you can always do everything you can.

Briar Kit Esme

#29. Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

P.L. Travers

#30. The den of the Devil is no place for the innocent.

Darby Briar

#31. Consider
a girl who keeps slipping off,
arms limp as old carrots,
into the hypnotist's trance,
into a spirit world
speaking with the gift of tongues.

Anne Sexton

#32. She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?"
He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one."
Daja shoved him, grinning.

Tamora Pierce

#33. It is only the things that we don't do that ever hold us back.

Briar Kit Esme

#34. Laughter can be a form of forgiveness - a gift, cathartic.

Briar Kit Esme

#35. Oh shit.... I think I just lit his fuse.

Darby Briar

#36. You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job.

Tamora Pierce

#37. It isn't all just kismet. Some of it is serendipity. Some of it is sagacity. A lot of it is doing the right thing simply because we can. The difference between those who don't and those who do, is that those who do, do. It doesn't get any more complicated than that.

Briar Kit Esme

#38. There's a shark out there!" "Where?" another beachgoer asked. She looked at him as if he were a moron. Where did he think a shark might be? At the ice cream vendor?

Briar Lee Mitchell

#39. Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique ... and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books and writers together in a literary trinity - a bookish triumvirate.

Briar Kit Esme

#40. When your life burns to ash before you, it's hard to find hope in the embers of what remains.

Darby Briar

#41. The simplest of tasks can create the happiest of moments.

Briar Kit Esme

#42. Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [ ... ] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

Tamora Pierce