Patricia Briggs

Quotes by Patricia Briggs

• 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.

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• You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

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• Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.

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

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• 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.

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• The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.

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• All right, Mom said. She gave Samuel a stern look,Now I don't know what's going on between you and my daughter and Adam Hauptman-Neither do we, I mutteredSamuel grinned We have it pretty well worked out as far as the sex goes. Adam gets it-someday-and I don't. But the rest is still up for negotiation.

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• Love is not necessary for sex.

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• This world has need of song and sword.

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• He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.

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• Wolf, she said. Married is wonderful, married is lovely. But I loved you before that, and you were mine before that. Only you for me— only me for you. That's how it was before our marriage. The smile fell away and left her pale and determined. That's how it was when I found you in that pit trap all those years ago— I knew as soon as I first saw your eyes. But then, I've known all my life what love is. It took you, who had nothing to compare it to, rather longer to figure out, to understand what is between us. But even when you did not understand or recognize it— it was always love.

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• Don't make light of any man's pain.

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• All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities that are greater than that of a fir tree or a blade of grass. Still, though, for most animals, the pattern of instinct, the patterns of their lives, are very strong. Humanity has a far greater range of possibilities, especially the very young. Who will children grow up to be? Who will they marry, what will they believe, what will they create? Creation is a very powerful seed of possibility.

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• People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

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• One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn't believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs.

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

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

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• 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.

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• Only cowards torture women.

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• You are looking at this wrong. You think I hold my territory by the might of my fist. But that's not it. I hold my territory by consent of the governed. I think it is a very American concept, which might be why you never looked for it. — Adam Hauptman, Columbia Basin Pack Alpha, to Iacopo (Jacob) Bonarata, Lord of the Night (master vampire of Milan)

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