A rape victim...a rape victim who fights...They've been violated, made helpless and afraid. It breaks their confidence in the safety of their little world. It makes them afraid."

[....]

"If you don't fight, it's not quite the same. If they make you help, make you cooperate, then it's not clear to you anymore. Is it rape? You feel dirty, violated, and guilty. Most of all guilty because you should have fought. Especially if you're Mercy and you fight everything."

[...]

"She chooses to go to Tim's house, but she also feels on some level that it's the wrong thing to do. Her choice. Her fault. Her fault when she drinks from that bloody fairy cup. Her fault that he - "

Just that fast Adam had Ben on the ground underneath him while he snarled. "It's not her fault she was raped," he growled.

Ben lay limp and gave Adam his throat, but he didn't quit talking, even though a tear slid down his cheek. "She thinks so."

Adam stilled.

"What's more," he continued hoarsely. "I bet she wonders if she was raped at all.


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PATRICIA BRIGGS
After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Adam wants to know what took you so long?
"Tell him I had wild, passionate sex with a complete ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Loneliness and fear ate at him, a loner by choice who had prided himself on his daring and courage. ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
I’ll get some more firewood,” I said, turning away from the fire. “What we have won’t last t...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Women are sneaky.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Love is not necessary for sex.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act huma...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live."

"Did she?" Cha...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Anna gave Charles a shy kiss on the cheek and strolled out of the room without a backward glance. Un...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
my grandfather would have loved to have met you," Charles told her huskily. "He would have called yo...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- a...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
He sighed. "I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
When is the last time you were a tourist?” she asked archly.

He just looked at her. Cha...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
A rape victim... a rape victim who fights...They've been violated, made helpless and afraid. It brea...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine.” He closed...
PATRICIA BRIGGS
You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.
PATRICIA BRIGGS
If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?
PATRICIA BRIGGS
Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that lit...
DEAN BRIGGS
I think we're in the midst of putting something incredible together.
LANCE BRIGGS
It's always production over technique, but if you're going to come out of your technique, make the p...
LANCE BRIGGS
I came in tight and he tried to duck underneath, and I came right up under his chest. He fell back, ...
LANCE BRIGGS
You'd see something and you're thinking like, 'Well, I've got to see here, even though I see the bal...
LANCE BRIGGS
Everybody's fired up about what we can do.
LANCE BRIGGS
Last week I was talking about wanting to finish big plays. Those are the big plays that I'm talking ...
LANCE BRIGGS
Bear in mind, [Route 44] is a state highway, ... And people have to remember that we have to coopera...
DONALD BRIGGS
It doesn't sound like you have an incubator.
PAUL BRIGGS
Jayson Foster was dodging and spinning around which added to his speed. Jermaine Austin seemed to do...
KENT BRIGGS
Earnings are a mixed bag, but it seem like tech stocks are starting to turn the corner.
DAVID BRIGGS
Nearly everyone was agreeable and cooperative.
TOM BRIGGS
It just feels lousy. There's a lot of reasons not to do anything.
DAVID BRIGGS
This is inexcusable! I have Shannon in great shape. We were back in the gym three days after the Mer...
SHANNON BRIGGS
If we need a programmer, I just go down to engineering or the signals division. For marketing people...
CLARENCE BRIGGS
This site will be a clearinghouse of information on shady affiliate networks, software that generate...
CLARENCE BRIGGS
It's a straightforward integration. This is a vertical integration of really very complementary comp...
FRED BRIGGS
We're heading into the typically slower summer months, and it's slow already. It's hard to imagine a...
DAVID BRIGGS
I came in and inherited a great team, and that got me off on a great start because we were so compet...
SHANNA BRIGGS
I had outside leverage as the fullback went to the flat. I didn't think he was going to throw it. He...
LANCE BRIGGS
Anyone 60 or older can join.
BIRGIT BRIGGS
I know the seniors are in great hands with Leta and Angela. Leta has worked with the seniors since 1...
BIRGIT BRIGGS
The building was home to the National Guard Armory until 1976 when plans to have a civic center in t...
BIRGIT BRIGGS
The best advertisement for us is people telling people. If organizers have a successful event and th...
BIRGIT BRIGGS
In the last few years we have more than doubled the events that take place at the center. We average...
BIRGIT BRIGGS
Writers traditionally see themselves and are perceived as acting in the solitude of their rooms, doi...
JOHN BRIGGS
The Enron news may have been enough to distract people today, or if not, then maybe kept investors t...
DAVID BRIGGS
Investors were cautious to begin with this year, and the hurricanes are causing them to second-guess...
DAVID BRIGGS
The zinc market is going to become as tight as copper. Every speculator is buying zinc now.
STEPHEN BRIGGS
The bundling of SCARI++ on the SDR-4000 delivers a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) SDR modem platfor...
MARK BRIGGS
Once we started making things more difficult for them, I don't think it was a coincidence that all o...
SCOTT BRIGGS
John's vision and sense of dedication to supporting, planning and executing activities that enrich h...
THOMAS BRIGGS
We've got a bunch of good kids and I don't want them to get a reputation for being unruly, because t...
DONALD BRIGGS
What excites me about this is that we're talking. We should have done this a long time ago. This giv...
DONALD BRIGGS
It will limit the negative impacts that a development could bring to the community, ... It's a pathw...
DONALD BRIGGS
We've been able to come up with a piece of legislation that is going to preserve the character of ou...
DONALD BRIGGS
It's time for the elected officials to do their job,
DONALD BRIGGS
This is a brilliant day,
DONALD BRIGGS
They want the quickest and best route so they can make money, ... We're trying not to annoy them.
DONALD BRIGGS
In downtown Manhattan, maybe five acres would be worth that much. But down here, it's a bunch of mar...
DON BRIGGS