Patricia Briggs Quotes

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.

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach, ” I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. “ ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.

Women are sneaky.

Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs.“Sometime, ” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.

He sighed. "I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?"No.

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

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

My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, “And to think I was always worried that you didn’t have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.

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

Brother Wolf gave Anna an amused look and then went back to being scary.

When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.

You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.

No, really, " I said. "Now that we know that Flores is really this nasty, fiery, superpowerful nothing-can-kill-me demon from hell, maybe we should consider just giving Christy to him?

Jumping Jehoshaphat. O Holy Night.

Damn it, " I said. "I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton."He smiled at me, his teeth very white in the darkness of his face. "Eat him, " he said.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.

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

Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

Stupid young girls who get caught alone in the forest fall prey to anything that crosses their paths, be the beast animal, human or shapeshifter.

You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?” “Mmm, ” I said. “I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?

Matt Smith?" I said. "Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris.

Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred.

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.

Then Walter died as he lived, he told his mate. A hero, a soldier, and a survivor who chose to protect what was precious to him. I don't think, if you could ask him, that he would have any regrets.

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

Honey will wipe the floor with you." His eyes went half-mast, and his voice dropped in evident pleasure. "I know.