Patricia Briggs Quotes

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

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

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

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

Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.

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.

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

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.

And thus Charles found himself wandering around a hotel, trailing federal agents as he held a cardboard coffee cup holder in each hand, instead of out killing misbehaving werewolves.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

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

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.

No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.

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

You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.

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?

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.

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. (Bone Crossed)

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

Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot.

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.

Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.

Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.

Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.

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

It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been A Violent Death, Perfect For Creating Ghosts.

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

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."

I'm a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires---outmatched is n understatement.

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

Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day.

They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies.

Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)

The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good.

He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.

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.

In this dream, I wasn’t a coyote shapeshifter trying to hold a werewolf, I was Coyote’s almost daughter, and I had all the strength of the world in my arms.

Wolves eat coyotes," Gordon said[...] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have said to that. "Yes," observed Adam blandly. "I do." Yep. That was the one that came to mind. And he didn't even blush when he said it. Maybe Gordon would miss the double entendre. But he grinned cheerfully at Adam.

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter;

get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

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

If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.

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

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

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