Patricia Briggs Quotes

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

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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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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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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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It's only fair to warn you that you sealed your fate tonight. When you knew you were in trouble, you came to me. That makes twice, Mercy, and twice is almost as good as a declaration. You are mine now.... Ben says you might run. If you do, I will find you and bring you back. Every time you run, Mercy. I won't force you, but... No more excuses, Mercy. You are mine, and I am keeping you.

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Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.

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There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience

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I like what you've done to your face," Ben said, tapping his eye.

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A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.

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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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Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

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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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Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

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I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy—I was so screwed.

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

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

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

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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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