Patricia Briggs Quotes

“Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.”

“Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.”

“Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.”

“Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.”

“A second floor window opened, and Kyle stuck his head and shoulders out so he could look down at us. “If you two are finished playing Cowboy and Indian out there, some of us would like to get their beauty sleep.”

I looked at Warren. “You heard ‘um Kemo Sabe. Me go to my little wigwam and get ‘um shut-eye.”

“How come you always get to play the Indian?” whined Warren, deadpan.

“Cause she’s the Indian, white boy,” said Kyle.”

“Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning.”

“She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining.

"I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.”

“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.”

“You’re a dead man,” Kyle said. “Warren doesn’t take kindly to people who hurt me.”

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

“Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.”

“I don't break; I bounce.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.”

“It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.”

“Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.”

“When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone—‘I didn’t mean to startle her.”

“Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.”

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

“MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.”

“I don't like it when I outweigh my men.”

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

“Mine," he said.

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

It would have been flattering, I thought, except that at least one of them was talking about dinner and I wasn't certain about the other.”

“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.”

“Only cowards torture women.”

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

“Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.”

“Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.”

“She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.”

“Some people are boys longer than others.”

“Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come.”

“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.”

“He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.”

“C’est moi, c’est moi,’tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn’t know if he’d catch the reference. I shouldn’t have worried.
Unexpectedly, he laughed. “Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.”

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

“Intelligent men are dangerous.”

“I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.”

“Any idiot can put up a website.”

“Civilization is vastly overrated.”

“Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.”

“The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.”

“It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.”

“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.”

“Mercy is not a proper Indian name."……….."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.”

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

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

“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran”

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

“Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.”

“Mine,… Mine is what she is.”

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

“The only certainty life contains is death.”

“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.”

“A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.”

“Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.”

“If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music.”

“Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs.

“Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.”

“He sighed. "I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?

"No.”

“No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.”

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

“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.”