Patricia Briggs Quotes

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

Source: Frost Burned

“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.”

Source: When Demons Walk

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

Source: Iron Kissed

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

Source: Moon Called

“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.”

Source: When Demons Walk

“People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.”

Source: Iron Kissed

Patricia Briggs Quotes about people

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

“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.”

Source: Cry Wolf

“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.”

Source: Iron Kissed

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

Source: Frost Burned

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

Source: Frost Burned

Patricia Briggs book Hunting Ground

Source: Hunting Ground

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“Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.”

“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.”

Source: Raven's Shadow

“I don't break; I bounce.”

Source: Cry Wolf

“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.”

Source: River Marked

Patricia Briggs Quotes

Patricia Briggs book Hunting Ground

Source: Hunting Ground

“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.”

Source: Silver Borne

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

“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.”

Source: Dragon Bones

“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.”

Source: River Marked

“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.”

Source: Masques

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

Source: Moon Called

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

Source: River Marked

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

Source: Moon Called

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

Source: Moon Called

“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.”

Source: Dragon Blood

“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.”

Source: Moon Called

“Only cowards torture women.”

Source: Bone Crossed

“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.”

Source: Raven's Shadow

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

Source: Bone Crossed

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

Source: Cry Wolf

“Some people are boys longer than others.”

Source: Cry Wolf

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

Source: Iron Kissed

“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.”

Source: Moon Called

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

Source: Moon Called

“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.”

Source: River Marked

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

Source: Moon Called

“Intelligent men are dangerous.”

Source: Moon Called

“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.”

Source: Dragon Bones

“Any idiot can put up a website.”

Source: Silver Borne

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

“Civilization is vastly overrated.”

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

Source: On the Prowl

“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.”

Source: Moon Called

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

Source: Iron Kissed

“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.”

Source: The Hob's Bargain

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

Source: Iron Kissed

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

Source: River Marked

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

Source: When Demons Walk

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

Source: Bone Crossed

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

Source: Cry Wolf

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

Source: Moon Called

“Mine,… Mine is what she is.”

Source: Bone Crossed

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

Source: Silver Borne

“The only certainty life contains is death.”

Source: Frost Burned

“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.”

Source: When Demons Walk

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

Source: Frost Burned

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

Source: Dragon Blood

“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.”

Source: Silver Borne

“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.”

Source: Cry Wolf

“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.”

Source: Bone Crossed

“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.”

Source: River Marked

“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.”

Source: Bone Crossed