110+ Patricia Briggs Quotes On Education, Being And Order

Patricia Briggs is an American writer of fantasy novels. She is best known for her Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series, as well as the Alpha and Omega series. Briggs has also written several short stories and a few non-fiction works. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Patricia Briggs on love, leadership, education.

Top 10 Patricia Briggs Quotes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
4. The only certainty life contains is death.
5. It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.
6. 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?
7. Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.
8. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.
9. MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• 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.
• I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.
• No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.
• 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.
• Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
• You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.
• Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.

Patricia Briggs Quotes About Love

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

She open her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his figures continued playing with out pause. — Patricia Briggs

Love is not necessary for sex. — Patricia Briggs

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

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

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

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

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

Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live." "Did she?" Charles looked at her, and she saw the approval in his face. She doubted anyone else would have read anything at all. His voice was a caress, just for her. "Would you like that, love? — Patricia Briggs

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

Patricia Briggs Quotes About Books

If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself. — Patricia Briggs

When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier. — Patricia Briggs

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful. — Patricia Briggs

Patricia Briggs Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Patricia Briggs

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

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. — Patricia Briggs

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

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. — Patricia Briggs

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) — Patricia Briggs

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

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

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

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

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. — Patricia Briggs

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." — Patricia Briggs

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

Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies. — Patricia Briggs

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

Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny. — Patricia Briggs

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

Ben rubbed his muzzle over Kyle’s shoulder in a way that I think was supposed to be reassuring. Kyle sucked in a breath. Either it hurt, or the reminder that the werewolf was big enough to rub his shoulder without much effort wasn’t exactly reassuring. “Ben, when was the last time you brushed your teeth?” asked Kyle. Or else Ben’s breath was really bad. — Patricia Briggs

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. — Patricia Briggs

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. — Patricia Briggs

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

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. — Patricia Briggs

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

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow. — Patricia Briggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

Only cowards torture women. — Patricia Briggs

She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness. — Patricia Briggs

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

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. — Patricia Briggs

See you tomorrow,” he said, instead. “All right.” Then, impulsively, I asked, “Do you have a place to sleep tonight?” “Sure,” he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don’t know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience. — Patricia Briggs

Do you have any idea how much I love you?” he asked. ”Enough to accept my apologies?” I suggested in a small voice. ”Heck no,” he said, and pushed off from the wall, stalking forward. When he reached me, he put his hands up and touched the sides of my neck with the tips of his fingers – as if I were something fragile. ”No apologies from you,” he told me, his voice soft enough to melt my knees and most of my other parts. — Patricia Briggs

Civilization is vastly overrated. — Patricia Briggs

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

He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone. Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with. — Patricia Briggs

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

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

"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." — Patricia Briggs

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

Charles could care less about shoes - and he suspected he wasn't alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn't care. Naked was good, though over the past couple of weeks he was beginning to think that dressed in his clothes was a decent second best. — Patricia Briggs

I can't protect you from knowledge. — Patricia Briggs

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone. — Patricia Briggs

Evil must always be fought. — Patricia Briggs

There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said. — Patricia Briggs

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

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. — Patricia Briggs

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

He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting. “You need to be more careful,” he growled. “Keep interfering in my business and you might get hurt.” I said sweetly as I continued to Jesse's room, “The last man who swatted me like that is rotting in his grave.” “I have no doubt about it.” His voice was more satisfied then contrite. — Patricia Briggs

Don't make light of any man's pain. — Patricia Briggs

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

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

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

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. — 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. — Patricia Briggs

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

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

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

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech. — Patricia Briggs

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

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known. — Patricia Briggs

Reincarnation?” He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back. — Patricia Briggs

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

Asil has appointed himself my guardian?" asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself. "He was bored, he told me," said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. "I have given him a job so he doesn’t get bored again. — Patricia Briggs

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father. — Patricia Briggs

I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine.” He closed his eyes and laughed. “And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women’s Liberation Movement’s list of things not to say to a modern woman — Patricia Briggs

If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub. — Patricia Briggs

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

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

Such a small thing to cause so much trouble. — Patricia Briggs

Survivors can't always choose their methods. — Patricia Briggs

Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come. (Moon Called) — Patricia Briggs

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

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could. — Patricia Briggs

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

The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two. — Patricia Briggs

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

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

He bit the nape of my neck and I moaned. — Patricia Briggs

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

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

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

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

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. — Patricia Briggs

Life Lessons by Patricia Briggs

1. Patricia Briggs teaches us to never give up, no matter how difficult the situation may seem. She shows us that with hard work and dedication, anything is possible.
2. Patricia Briggs also emphasizes the importance of being true to yourself and standing up for what you believe in.
3. Finally, she reminds us to never forget the power of friendship and how it can help us through even the toughest of times.