Patricia Briggs quote: "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."

The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I lik...
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by drivin...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm g...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for moder...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head i...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Any idiot can put up a website.
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Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to...
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Trying is always enough.
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Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Intelligent men are dangerous.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.
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Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.
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She opened her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his fingers continued p...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.
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Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach,” I agreed. He looked blank, so I ...
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Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear...
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Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
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A second floor window opened, and Kyle stuck his head and shoulders out so he could look down at us....
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For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever.
“Really?” he asked in a tone...
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A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young g...
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Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Some people are boys longer than others.
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It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or an...
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Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them.

Samuel frowned. The little f...
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She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
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His heart's occupied elsewhere," said Ben from behind me. "And even if it weren't he's not intereste...
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One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and...
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Only cowards torture women.
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My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'Sh...
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Mine," he said.

Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine."

It woul...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked.

"Because they're fussy and demanding," ans...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT A...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Mercy?”

“Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Civilization is vastly overrated.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Survivors can't always choose their methods.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him.

“Scooby-Doo is already taken,” ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.”
I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” PATRICIA BRIGGS

C’est moi, c’est moi,’tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn�...
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Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.
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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 ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figur...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest," Adam told him. He had ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

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

Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

This world has need of song and sword.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

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

Rumor exaggerates.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

We who are dominant tend to think of that aspect of being a werewolf as rank: who is obeyed, who is ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravesto...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Being a martyr is highly overrated.
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If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Mercy," he mumbled. "What the hell did you do to my French Roast?
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure spec...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kid...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

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

I can't protect you from knowledge.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will b...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

...The Arabs I rode herding cattle with your father in the fifties and sixties would do a full day�...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

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

A king who trusts no man is weak.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had b...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist ba...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in hi...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice. "Why not an ornament?"

"Wol...
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Damn it," I said. "I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton."

He smile...
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One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen ...
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Wolves eat coyotes," Gordon said[...] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have ...
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I put my cell phone in my back pocket (a habit that has destroyed two phones so far) and tried to bl...
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I paused to pat the truck’s hood gently in apology when someone put his hand on my shoulder.
...
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You need to choose,” he told me intently. “Adam or Samuel or neither. But you can’t keep them ...
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want to. Adam wasn’t angry. He wouldn’t hurt me. I let him pull the power of his pack over me li...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

One, one, two, zero,” I told him through the chattering of my teeth. “It’s my birthday.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

We appreciate the help you have given us so far, but your usefulness ends here.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

gyre
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I grew up in Montana, where an old, unregistered rifle was worth a lot more than a new gun whose own...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

A rape victim...a rape victim who fights...They've been violated, made helpless and afraid. It break...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

There's something really disturbing about finding out how little you really know about something you...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn’t?
PATRICIA BRIGGS

When things started to get dangerous, it was important to have people who knew as much as you did. T...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Jesse must have heard me because she stuck her head out of her bedroom and then rushed over. “Can ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.
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It wasn't hard to follow the scent of blood to the living room where the fae had been killed. It had...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I�...
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I think I’ll just go take a shower,” I said.
It wasn’t until Samuel stiffened that I rem...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.
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He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enou...
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A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned,” I murmured.
Warren—who ha...
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She crawled,” Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated m...
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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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She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining.

"I see dead people,” I dead...
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The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was l...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

It's only fair to warn you that you sealed your fate tonight. When you knew you were in trouble, you...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Some wounds need to be pricked so they can drain. Others just need to be left alone.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

I couldn't stay in that room with both men one more minute...

Even a human woman could ha...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

I don't wear a cross. As a child, I'd had a bad experience with one. Besides, a crucifix was the ins...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Mercy: Then why didn't Marsilia just come herself?

Andre: Marsilia is a lady. Women do no...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

The trick to staying out of trouble is to keep your nose out of other people's business.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

The problem with deciding to bend the rules was trying to figure out just how far you could bend the...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Male werewolves treat their mates like beloved slaves. the thought set my back up. It was just a goo...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

It is generally a bad thing when someone hunting you is polite. It means they are sure they can take...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Why is it that in all the adventure movies the heroine doesn't have to get up and go to work?
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Then again, maybe you couldn't have killed me," he said, crawling out of the stairway. He moved very...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everyt...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

If I ever become a serial murderer, I'll be very careful to kill people in a pattern that centres ar...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

He bit the nape of my neck and I moaned.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

We’d spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attracti...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

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

I thought you couldn't make it here until morning," I said.
"I hurried.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Damn it,” I said. “I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton.”
He smile...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtur...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct--Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inc...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women...
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...
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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

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