Patricia Briggs Quotes page 2

“Dragons and legends… It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.”

Source: Hunting Ground

“You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?”
“Mmm,” I said. “I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?”

Source: Dragon Blood

“Someday, I'm going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner - but I'm not going to hold my breath.”

Source: Blood Bound

“So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.”

Source: River Marked

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

Source: Blood Bound

“Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.”

Source: Raven's Strike

“Adam wants to know what took you so long?
"Tell him I had wild, passionate sex with a complete stranger.”

Source: Raven's Shadow

“If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.”

Source: Blood Bound

Patricia Briggs book Iron Kissed

Source: Iron Kissed

“What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.”

“After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too.”

Source: Fair Game

“Survivors can't always choose their methods.”

Source: Blood Bound

“Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.”

Source: Dragon Blood

“Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.”

Source: River Marked

“Bran was always a deceptive bastard, gentle and mild right up until he ripped your throat out. He had many other fine qualities as well.”

Source: Raven's Strike

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

“You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.”

“I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine.” He closed his eyes and laughed. “And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women’s Liberation Movement’s list of things not to say to a modern woman.”

Source: Fair Game

“Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies.”

Source: River Marked

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

Source: Fair Game

“Trying is always enough.”

Source: Hunting Ground

“Mercy?”

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

Source: Dragon Bones

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

“I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

“I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.”

“Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.”

Source: Fair Game

Patricia Briggs book Moon Called

Source: Moon Called

“Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.”

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

He smiled at me, his teeth very white in the darkness of his face. "Eat him," he said.”

Source: River Marked

“She opened her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his fingers continued playing without pause.”

Source: Blood Bound

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

“Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me—not if I could help it.”

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

"Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're… stubbon and hard to move.”

Source: River Marked

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

Source: Silver Borne

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

Source: Raven's Shadow

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

“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.”

“To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.”

Source: Frost Burned

“Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.”

Source: Hunting Ground

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

Source: River Marked

“Being a martyr is highly overrated.”

Source: Hunting Ground

“It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.”

Source: Dragon Bones

“Don't make light of any man's pain.”

Source: Dragon Bones

“Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.”

Source: When Demons Walk

“You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.”

Source: Silver Borne

“Werewolf games," Mercy said solemnly, "play for keeps, or go home." She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.”

Source: Frost Burned

“A man's immortality can be found in his children.”

Source: Frost Burned

“People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.”

Source: Raven's Shadow

“Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.”

Source: The Hob's Bargain

“Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?”

Source: River Marked

“There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience”

Source: Frost Burned

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

Source: Silver Borne

“My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned
with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to
the sun.”

Source: River Marked