Patricia Briggs famous quotes

Evil must always be fought.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Evil

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

#Summer #Mean #Winter

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Stupid #Anger #Opponents

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Fighting #Names #Vampire

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

#Mother #Enemy #Scripture

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Expectations #Grace #Important

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.
-- Patricia Briggs

#People #Survival

That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Taken #Names #Superhero

MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Block #Letters #Heavy

It's only fair to warn you that you sealed your fate tonight. When you knew you were in trouble, you came to me. That makes twice, Mercy, and twice is almost as good as a declaration. You are mine now.... Ben says you might run. If you do, I will find you and bring you back. Every time you run, Mercy. I won't force you, but. .. No more excuses, Mercy. You are mine, and I am keeping you.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Running #Fate #Tonight

I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Mean #Giving #Asking

A king who trusts no man is weak.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Kings #Men #Weak

Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Jobs #Women #Car

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Moral

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Daylight #Ghost #Easier

The only certainty life contains is death.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Certainty

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.
-- Patricia Briggs

#People #Faces #Slinkies

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Depression #Despair #Harder

Only cowards torture women.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Women #Coward #Torture

Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Running #Car #Too Much

A man's immortality can be found in his children.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Children #Men #Immortality

Coffee or orange juice?” “Water is fine.” His eyebrows went up. “Uh-oh,” Auriele said, but she was smiling. Darryl was not. “Are you implying that my coffee is not the best in four counties? Or my fresh-squeezed orange juice is less than perfect?
-- Patricia Briggs

#Coffee #Eyebrows #Orange

Wizards don't all look alike.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Looks #Wizards

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Thinking #Past #Sometimes

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Freedom #Eagles #Long

Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Fighting #Men #Dragons

Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Car

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Lying #Soul #Your Soul

Heart turned to me, his face thought­ful. “Yes­ter­day morn­ing. Yes, that means that Daphne hadn’t been home for two days be­fore that.” He smiled at me. “You were sup­posed to be the Al­pha’s eye can­dy.” Adam laughed. “What?” I asked him. “You don’t think I’d be good eye can­dy?” I looked down at my over­alls and grease-​stained hands. I’d torn an­oth­er nail to the quick. “Hon­ey is eye can­dy,” said Ben apolo­get­ical­ly. “You’re . . . just you.” “Mine,” said Adam, edg­ing be­tween Heart and me. “Mine is what she is.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Heart #Mean #Eye

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

#Brother #Fun #Trying

Um. Charles thinks that his wolf has chosen me as his mate." "In less than one full day?" It did sound dumb when he said it that way. "Yes." she couldn't keep the uncertainty of her her voice, though, and it bothered Charles. He rolled to his feet and growled softly. "Charles also said I was an Omega wolf she told his father. That might have something to do with it as well." Silence lengthened and she began to think tha the cell phone might have dropped the connection. Then the Marrok laughed softly. "Oh his brother is going to tease him unmercifully about this.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Brother #Father #Thinking

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

#Wise #Powerful #Giving

Yes, well," said his da with a hint of a grow that told him just how worried Bran had been about him, "that'll teach you to dodge a bit quicker next time." "Sorry," he apologized meekly as he sat in the passenger seat. "Good," said Bran, shutting the door gently. "Don't let it happen again." -Bran and Charles
-- Patricia Briggs

#Sorry #Doors #Hints

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.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Son #Men #Laughing

This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Giving Up #Men #Choices

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

#Morning #People #Easy

My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but I underestimated how badly hurt I was." "Stupid," she said tartly. He looked up at her, and whatever he saw in her face made him smile, though his voice was serious when he answered her charge. "Yes. You throw my judgement off." -Charles and Anna when he thought she was leaving him and Changed when he was injured
-- Patricia Briggs

#Hurt #Stupid #Father

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

#Racist #Kind #Werewolf

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

#Hero #Mean #Writing

Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Guests #Manners #Darling

I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Daughter #Powerful #Voice

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

#People #Evil #Action

We’d spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attraction. Somehow, during all those years I spent outwardly acquiescing to his demands while making sure I held my own, I’d won his respect. I’d had werewolves love me and hate me, but I’d never had one respect me before. Not even Samuel. Adam respected me enough to act on my suspicions. It meant a lot.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Hate #Years #Two

Charles preferred his deer to taste like meat and his pancakes to look like pancakes. Brother Wolf thought he was too picky. Brother Wolf was probably right.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Brother #Taste #Deer

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

#Want #Said #Anna

Much awkwardness ensued.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Awkwardness

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.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Evil #World #Monsters

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

#Hurt #Track #Ponies

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man
-- Patricia Briggs

#Men #Love Is #Risk

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

#Innocent #Explanation #Particular

Anna followed, keeping a sharp eye out for things he might back into or over. She wondered if Isaac did this all the time-and, if so, how he avoided getting photos in the paper with captions like "Local Alpha Trips Over Child" or "Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Children #Eye #Winning

Is it like a Harry Potter thing?" He turned his head then. "A what?" "A Harry Potter thing," she said again. "You know, don't say Voldemort's name because you might attract his attention?" He considered it. "You mean the children's book." "I have got to get you to watch more movies," she said. "You'd enjoy these. Yes, I mean the children's book.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Children #Book #Mean

Mercy: “Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet.” Ben: “You killed someone?” Ben asked with interest
-- Patricia Briggs

#Sleep #Men #Mercy

I thought you couldn't make it here until morning," I said. "I hurried.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Morning #Said

She crawled,” Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. “She crawled to the bathroom to clean herself again. If it weren’t for the two subs in the pack, I’d be on the bottom. And she wouldn’t stand up in my presence for guilt.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Two #Voice #Guilt

It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn’t love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had to hide. He didn’t love me so he might hurt me when he was angry. When he calmed down, that would hurt him. I didn’t want him hurting because of me. There was nowhere for a person to hide. So I wouldn’t be a person. My eyes fell on the shelves that lined the far back corner. A coyote could hide there.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Hurt #Eye #Coyotes

A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned,” I murmured. Warren—who had once, a long time ago, been a cowboy—snickered and wiggled his bare feet. “It could be the beginning of either a bad joke or a horror story.” “No,” said Kyle, the lawyer, whose head was propped up on my thigh. “If you want a horror story, you have to start out with a werewolf, his gorgeous lover, and a walker.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Queens #Cowboy #Feet

Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Italian #Engineering #Cooking

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Looks #Doe #Different

I liked Lost in Space,” Stefan said. “The movie or the TV series?” “The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie,” he said soberly. “It was better that way.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Space #Way #Tvs

I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Dragons #Bedroom #Easier

Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Mercy #Revelations #Minutes

I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Dream #Frogs #Garbage

I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member." Much awkwardness ensued.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Giving #Athena #Members

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.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Strong #Children #Growing Up

I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Hands #Adam #Possession

I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Reality #Reflection #Coyotes

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 #Normal #Showers

I like what you've done to your face," Ben said, tapping his eye.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Eye #Done #Faces

Are you done yet?' Issac called Charles tilted his head back and called back, 'I suppose that's why they call you the five minute wonder.' Anna could feel her eyes round and her mouth drop open 'I cant believe you just said that' She paused and reconsidered. 'I am so telling Samuel you said that.' Charles smiled. kissed her gently, and said 'Samuel won't believe you.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Believe #Eye #Done

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

#Father #Boston #Cooking

I'm not threatening to kill myself. But you need to know this about me because—if you want to be my mate—I won't be like Leo. I won't let you sleep around with anyone else. I won't be forced either. I've had enough. If that makes me a dog in the manger, so be it. But if I am yours, then you damned well are going to be mine." - Anna to Charles
-- Patricia Briggs

#Dog #Sleep #Want

My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Mother #Knowing #Rooms

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

#Track #Want

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

#Doors #Bars #Mundane

When is the last time you were a tourist?” she asked archly. He just looked at her. Charles, she had to agree, was not tourist material. “Right,” Anna told him. “Buck up. You might even enjoy it.” “You might as well have ‘hapless victim’ tattooed across your forehead,” he muttered.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Bucks #Might #Lasts

Yes,” I told him. “I think the guy playing the Pirate King was awesome.” He stopped where he was. “What?” I asked, frowning at the big smile on his face. “I didn’t say I liked the Pirate King,” he told me. “Oh.” I closed my eyes—and there he was. A warm, edgy presence right on the edge of my perception. When I opened my eyes, he was standing right in front of me. “Cool,” I told him. “You’re back.” He kissed me leisurely. When he was finished, I was more than ready to head home. Fast. “You make me laugh,” he told me seriously.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Kings #Eye #Home

I don't get mad, I get even.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Mad

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?
-- Patricia Briggs

#Giving Up #Sleep #Home

But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.
-- 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

#Perfect #Imperfection #Who We Are

I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia." "Hey, he's not that bad," Warren said. "Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Thinking #Hands #Hey

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Thinking #Littles #Complicated

The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Way #Able #Protect

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

#Hurt #Men #People

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.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Ideas #Said

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Vampire #Looks #Complicated

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

#Stupid #Adam Hauptman

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.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Love You #Needs #Mercy

There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Girl #Names #Car

Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been happier if he hadn't sounded scared. "Easy, Warren," Adam told him. "You're safe here.” "If you die on us, you won't be," said Kyle with a growl that would have done credit to any of the werewolves in the room.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Credit #Done #Safe

I jerked my chin toward Frost’s body. ‘All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.’ Hao said, “Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else.” Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Men #Evil #Good Man

I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Moving #People #Chess

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.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Lasts #Calendars #Said

Sometimes broken people stay broken.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Broken #People #Sometimes

Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified...
-- Patricia Briggs

#Stressed #Survivor #Paranoia

She was on the far side, leaving two cold feet of mattress between them. He knew that she'd fall asleep like that... and then gradually move over until she was plastered against him. Then he could go to sleep, too.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Moving #Fall #Sleep

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

#Realizing #Freaky #Mess

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.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Sex #Women #Reputation

Love is not necessary for sex.
-- Patricia Briggs

#Sex #Love Is