Patricia Briggs Quotes

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

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

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

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There isn't a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.

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Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

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If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.

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He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

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Yes, well," said his da with a hint of a grow that told him just how worried Bran had been about him, "that'll teach you to dodge a bit quicker next time." "Sorry," he apologized meekly as he sat in the passenger seat. "Good," said Bran, shutting the door gently. "Don't let it happen again." -Bran and Charles

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Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.

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I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.

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See you tomorrow, he said, instead. All right. Then, impulsively, I asked, Do you have a place to sleep tonight? Sure, he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don't know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience.

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It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn't love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had to hide. He didn't love me so he might hurt me when he was angry. When he calmed down, that would hurt him. I didn't want him hurting because of me. There was nowhere for a person to hide. So I wouldn't be a person. My eyes fell on the shelves that lined the far back corner. A coyote could hide there.

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She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

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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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All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

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Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

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Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach, I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.

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My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

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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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I don't think you're supposed to be able to get at that information, said Leslie. Don't look, said Goldstein, peering over Charles's shoulder. We don't know anything about illegal hacking. He whistled cheerily.

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If you could just see your face, she told me. You look like a cat in a bathtub.

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