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Patricia Briggs is an American writer of fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. February 1965
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Patricia Briggs Quotes

“He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.”

Patricia Briggs book Hunting Ground

Source: Hunting Ground

“I don't get mad, I get even.”

Patricia Briggs

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

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

“This world has need of song and sword.”

Patricia Briggs

Source: Dragon Bones

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

Patricia Briggs book Dead Heat

Source: Dead Heat

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

Patricia Briggs book Moon Called

Source: Moon Called

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

Patricia Briggs

Source: Dragon Blood

“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.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

“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.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

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

Patricia Briggs book Night Broken

Source: Night Broken

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

Patricia Briggs

Source: The Hob's Bargain

“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.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

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

Patricia Briggs book Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

“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.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

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

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

“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”

Patricia Briggs

“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—”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

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

Patricia Briggs book Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

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

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

“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?”

Patricia Briggs book Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

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

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

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

Patricia Briggs book Hunting Ground

Source: Hunting Ground

“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.”

Patricia Briggs book Dead Heat

Source: Dead Heat

“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.”

Patricia Briggs book Moon Called

Source: Moon Called

“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.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

“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.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked