Patricia Briggs Quotes

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

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

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

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to

He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

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 could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.

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

Much awkwardness ensued.

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

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

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

Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.

It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.

Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.

"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

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—

I was talking cannibalism, not romance.

You’re a dead man,” Kyle said. “Warren doesn’t take kindly to people who hurt me.

Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea.” “Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.

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

Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.

Obstreperous, ‘huh,” said Tad. “I see you’ve been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas.” “That is irrefragable,” I told him solemnly.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

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.

I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?

For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.

She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin to his, as if she'd die if he left her.

You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.

Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.

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

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .

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

Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

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

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

Most of the pack would rather have Darryl mad at them than Auriele.

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