Patricia Briggs Quotes

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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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Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

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Do they always flirt with biblical quotes?" Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, "They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We've learned to live with it. Get a room you guys.

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Mine" he said. Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine." It would of been flattering, I thought, except that at least one of them was talking about dinner and I wasn't certain about the other.

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I liked Lost in Space, Stefan said. The movie or the TV series? The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie, he said soberly. It was better that way.

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People who know other people's secrets can't afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.

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There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick's car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.

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Apparently deciding Charles's brief introduction wasn't good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—

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Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him.

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I think I'll just go take a shower, I said. It wasn't until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I'd just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal.

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He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone. Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.

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A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned, I murmured. Warren—who had once, a long time ago, been a cowboy—snickered and wiggled his bare feet. It could be the beginning of either a bad joke or a horror story. No, said Kyle, the lawyer, whose head was propped up on my thigh. If you want a horror story, you have to start out with a werewolf, his gorgeous lover, and a walker.

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Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.

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His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

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Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

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It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.

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I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member." Much awkwardness ensued.

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Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

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Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, Kill it. Squish it.

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Tis the gift to be gentle, 'tis the gift to be fair, 'Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air, To walk every day in the path that we choose, Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.

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We'd spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attraction. Somehow, during all those years I spent outwardly acquiescing to his demands while making sure I held my own, I'd won his respect. I'd had werewolves love me and hate me, but I'd never had one respect me before. Not even Samuel. Adam respected me enough to act on my suspicions. It meant a lot.

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You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.

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Obstreperous, 'huh, said Tad. I see you've been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas. That is irrefragable, I told him solemnly.

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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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