Patricia Briggs Quotes

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The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.

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Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

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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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One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)

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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.

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Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live." "Did she?" Charles looked at her, and she saw the approval in his face. She doubted anyone else would have read anything at all. His voice was a caress, just for her. "Would you like that, love?

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

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I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.

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Do you have any idea how much I love you? he asked. Enough to accept my apologies? I suggested in a small voice. Heck no, he said, and pushed off from the wall, stalking forward. When he reached me, he put his hands up and touched the sides of my neck with the tips of his fingers – as if I were something fragile. No apologies from you, he told me, his voice soft enough to melt my knees and most of my other parts.

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Don't fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don't need to swallow you whole, I don't need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you're there.

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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.

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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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He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.

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

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The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.

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She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin to his, as if she'd die if he left her.

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I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.

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After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too.

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Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come. (Moon Called)

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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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Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.

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I jerked my chin toward Frost's body. 'All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.' Hao said, 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. Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment.

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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.

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You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.

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

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Are we going to Portland?" I asked. "Or Multnomah Falls?" He smiled at me. "Go to sleep." I waited three seconds. "Are we there yet?" His smile widened, and the last of the usual tension melted from his face. For a smile like that, I'd...do anything.

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Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

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He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting. You need to be more careful, he growled. Keep interfering in my business and you might get hurt. I said sweetly as I continued to Jesse's room, The last man who swatted me like that is rotting in his grave. I have no doubt about it. His voice was more satisfied then contrite.

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Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

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