The Marrok Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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.

Patricia Briggs

#3. Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

Kevin J. Anderson

#4. Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.

Lucretius

#5. Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

Betsy Byars

#6. 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

#7. What was sad in the world he did not superficially gainsay; what was glad in it he did not cynically slur; and all which was to him personally enjoyable, he gratefully took to his heart.

Herman Melville

#8. 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

#9. Be wanderers through time, I said. Be witnesses of all splendid and beautiful things human. Be true immortals.

Anne Rice

#10. For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
And is a pattern of celestial peace.

William Shakespeare

#11. Marrok, in all
these years, you've grown to be like a grandson to me. I believe you can do this. Have faith in your
wolf, son. Where you're weak, he's strong. It's his mate, too, and I can guarantee he won't let her go
without a fight.

Rose Wynters

#12. History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

Will Durant

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

Patricia Briggs