Patricia Briggs Quotes

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“I don't get mad, I get even.”

“We are none of us perfect, and… we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are”

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

“This world has need of song and sword.”

“But that is the dual gift of love, isn’t it? The joy of greeting and the sorrow of good-bye.”

“Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.”

“You play games with people's lives.(…) You forget that they are fragile.”

“That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me.” I nodded toward the mess. “And if you knew my life, you’d realize just how freaky that is.”

“Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.”

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

“Almost-Sister, you picked a real catch.”
“It was I who caught her,” Adam said softly. “It took years.”

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

“In this dream, I wasn’t a coyote shapeshifter trying to hold a werewolf, I was Coyote’s almost daughter, and I had all the strength of the world in my arms.”

“There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.”

“Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.”

“I thought you were dead.
Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.”

“Asil has appointed himself my guardian?" asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself.

"He was bored, he told me," said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. "I have given him a job so he doesn’t get bored again.”

“There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.”

“If you leave me naked and waiting on the bed without making love to me, I’ll—” I didn’t get to finish the threat. I think it was the word “naked,” though maybe it was “bed,” but before I finished my sentence, he was on me. Mercy to Adam”

“Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—”

“Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.”

“He bit the nape of my neck and I moaned.”

“If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?”

“I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.”

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

“If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.”

“I don't like lies," said Bran, and I knew I'd failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. "Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”

“Anna: “I thought Indians built fires with fiction.”
Charles: “I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster.”

“Coyote to Mercy:

"I didn't know about you until a lot later. Then I stopped to check you out. You looked happy running with the wolves. They looked bewildered- which is as it should be when a coyote plays with wolves.”