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"See you tomorrow,” he said, instead. “All right.” Then, impulsively, I asked, “Do you have a place to sleep tonight?” “Sure,” he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don’t know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Said #Way #Sleep
"The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don’t. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don’t want to talk"
--- Patricia Briggs
#People #Walks #Known
"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"
--- Patricia Briggs
#People #Eye #Taken
"I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Pants #Driving #My Friends
"You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Alpha And Omega #Half
"Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Enemy #Scripture #Mother
"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Mean #Summer And Winter #Winter
"Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions." She was lecturing him, so she stopped. "Sorry. Hang around with Bran too long, and see if you don’t start passing around the Marrok’s advice as if he were Confucius."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Lecturing #People #Accepting
"Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Temporary #Results #Baking
"Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Car #Fussy
"He'd woken up after flying from Boston to Montana to find his da cooking breakfast for them: sausage and pancakes shaped like deer. It wasn't just any deer, either - they looked like Bambi from the disney cartoon. Charles didn't want to know how his father had managed that"
--- Patricia Briggs
#Know How #Pancakes #Montana
"I think I’ll just go take a shower,” I said. It wasn’t until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I’d just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Thinking #Said #Remembered
"A king who trusts no man is weak."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Kings #Men #Weak
"The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Terrible #World #Belief
"Ben rubbed his muzzle over Kyle’s shoulder in a way that I think was supposed to be reassuring. Kyle sucked in a breath. Either it hurt, or the reminder that the werewolf was big enough to rub his shoulder without much effort wasn’t exactly reassuring. “Ben, when was the last time you brushed your teeth?” asked Kyle. Or else Ben’s breath was really bad."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Thinking #Lasts #Shoulders
"Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Paranoia #Burden #Stressed
"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.""
--- Patricia Briggs
#Biblical #Said #Long
"He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Fangs #Moral
"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
#Elders #Nice #Very Nice
"For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever. “Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable. “Really what?” I asked. “Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?” He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me. “Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Heard #Packs #Walks
"Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Sorry #Apology #Bunnies
"Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Trouble #Tomorrow
"Dont let the bastards grind you down?" Bran looked at me incredulously."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Grind
"I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Fighting #Vampire #Names
"It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Play #Fire #Lessons
"Wizards are a secretive lot."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Wizards #Secretive
"Don't make light of any man's pain."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Men #Pain #Light
"People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world."
--- Patricia Briggs
#People #World #Anna
"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"
--- Patricia Briggs
#Mean #Next Time #Dies
"There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Danger #Dangerous #Fair Game
"When I write, I get glimpses into future novels."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Writing #Glimpse #Novel
"My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind."
--- Patricia Briggs
#Stories #Acquaintance #Facts

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