Patricia Briggs Quotes

Patricia Briggs

Patricia Briggs is an American writer of fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. (Patricia Briggs Quotes)

“A deep voice wound around her, calling her, lulling her with gentleness. She didn’t understand the words, but for a moment she felt safe.”
Patricia Briggs
Wild Sign

“A king who trusts no man is weak.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Blood

“A man learns with age, if he is lucky.”
Patricia Briggs
When Demons Walk

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Blood

“A man’s immortality can be found in his children.”
Patricia Briggs
Raven’s Shadow

“A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Blood

“A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who’d been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.”
Patricia Briggs
Moon Called

“Action is the best cure for despair.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Blood

“Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.”
Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound

“And it was easier to have an unrequited love than to get all fussed and dressed and go out on dates every Saturday with men she was never going to fall in love with. So she’d quit dating, quit dressing up—and on the whole she was happier than she’d been before.”
Patricia Briggs
Shifting Shadows

“And that, children, is why ultimatums are a bad idea, said a memory speaking in the Marrok’s voice.”
Patricia Briggs
Smoke Bitten

“Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent’s blade.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Bones

“As long as I thought what he wanted me to think, he liked it when I thought for myself.”
Patricia Briggs
Smoke Bitten

“Being a martyr is highly overrated.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Bones

“But despair was not a synonym for sorrow or regret. Despair was the loss of hope.”
Patricia Briggs
Burn Bright

“But I would be a much better monster than you were. There would be no stories about my reign of terror because no one would live to tell the tale.”
Patricia Briggs
Shifting Shadows

“But that is the dual gift of love, isn’t it? The joy of greeting and the sorrow of good-bye.” (Patricia Briggs Quotes)
Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat

“But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts – no one really knew what they did.”
Patricia Briggs
Wolfsbane

“But you can’t marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.”
Patricia Briggs
Bone Crossed

“Can you hear the silence? It’s the good kind of silence, not the silence that listens back.”
Patricia Briggs
Fire Touched

“Canadian hikers would be too polite to end up as bodies. Thus the bodies must not belong to random hikers.”
Patricia Briggs
Burn Bright

“Change is neither good nor bad. It’s just change. Frightening, but survivable.”
Patricia Briggs
Shifting Shadows

“Charles looked at her thoughtfully. “People talk to you,” he said. “That could be useful.”
Patricia Briggs
Hunting Ground

“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
Fair Game

“Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.”
Patricia Briggs
Iron Kissed

“Civilization is vastly overrated.”
Patricia Briggs
On the Prowl

“Dance when the moon sings, and don’t cry about troubles that haven’t yet come.”
Patricia Briggs
Moon Called

“Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.”
Patricia Briggs
River Marked

“Death is not to be feared. Death is easy. It is living that is brutal.”
Patricia Briggs
Fire Touched

“Death is part of life,” he told her. “Without the one, it is hard to have the other.”
Patricia Briggs
Fire Touched

“Death isn’t a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.”
Patricia Briggs
Night Broken

“Don’t make light of any man’s pain.”
Patricia Briggs
When Demons Walk

“Dragons and legends…It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Blood

“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.”
Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound

“Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.”
Patricia Briggs
When Demons Walk

“Fire is a powerful thing. It cleanses as it destroys- and it brings light to darkness.”
Patricia Briggs
Burn Bright

“God help us and keep us from receiving what we deserve”
Patricia Briggs
Night Broken

“Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.”
Patricia Briggs
Moon Called

“Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”
Patricia Briggs
Moon Called

“He could have told her that he had no intention of bedding her, but he tried not to lie. Not even to himself. So he stayed silent.”
Patricia Briggs
Alpha and Omega

“He did not enjoy the sorrow, but he would not have missed the years that he and Joseph were friends, either. Such joy was worth a little sorrow.”
Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat

“He did not except the fire to destroy everything they hadn’t found.”
Patricia Briggs
Burn Bright

“He didn’t want to scare her any more than she already was. He could have told her that he had no intention of bedding her, but he tried not to lie. Not even to himself. So he stayed silent.”
Patricia Briggs
Shifting Shadows

“He didn’t say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I’d been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.”
Patricia Briggs
Moon Called

“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
Hunting Ground

“He smiled, a wide, joyful expression—and oddly the fangs didn’t rob the smile of its charm. “I am at peace, Mercy,” he told me. He closed his eyes and quit moving his body. “Just like you told me. I will never be okay again.” He didn’t sound unhappy about it.”
Patricia Briggs
Storm Cursed

“He was a better fighter than I was, but he wasn’t faster than me. Nor was he as motivated, and I think he underestimated me. He thought he was fighting a girl with a stick when he was fighting Adam’s mate, Coyote’s daughter, armed with Lugh’s staff.”
Patricia Briggs
Fire Touched

“He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.”
Patricia Briggs
River Marked

“He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn’t as hopeless a thing as it might have been.”
Patricia Briggs
Bone Crossed

“He was trying to be tactful,” Leslie said, though she didn’t believe it.”
Patricia Briggs
Wild Sign

“He’d have to call his brother, Samuel, and tell him that he’d finally learned that his face wouldn’t crack if he smiled. All it had taken to teach him was an Omega werewolf.” (Patricia Briggs Quotes)
Patricia Briggs
Alpha and Omega

“Healthy pain invites healing. Gabriel is a good boy; he’ll be a good man. Not all relationships that end”
Patricia Briggs
Smoke Bitten

“His arm pulled her a little off balance, and paradoxically it steadied her at the same time. That was what Charles did to her heart, too. He knocked it off balance into what felt like the right position, a safe place that was still exciting, exhilarating, and terrifying.”
Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat

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

“Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.”
Patricia Briggs
Bone Crossed

“Holy Avon, Batman, I thought as worry relaxed into annoyance-tinged humor, I’ve been attacked by a multilevel marketer.”
Patricia Briggs
Fire Touched

“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”
Patricia Briggs
On the Prowl

“Humans, in her experience, were weak and fragile things prone to dying and breeding with about the same frequency.”
Patricia Briggs
Shifting Shadows

“I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case…I love you. ”
Patricia Briggs
On the Prowl

“I have a degree in history, which is one of the reasons I’m an auto mechanic.”
Patricia Briggs
Moon Called

“I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.”
Patricia Briggs
Silver Borne

“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
River Marked

“I only knew that Adam was hurt, and I wasn’t there to make him safe.”
Patricia Briggs
Fire Touched

“I pulled out the quilt I was making for my sister’s baby. After years of barrenness, Ani was preparing for the birth of her first child in late summer. As fast as I sewed, I might get it done by the child’s twelfth year.”
Patricia Briggs
The Hob’s Bargain

“I remember that she sang,” Charles said. “And her song made Brother Wolf uneasy.”
Patricia Briggs
Wild Sign

“I see your fear, they told her, but no harm will come to you by me.”
Patricia Briggs
Shifting Shadows

“I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.”
Patricia Briggs
River Marked

“I think it’s the eyes. No one expects brilliance out of a man with eyelashes like that.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Bones

“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
Fair Game

“I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.”
Patricia Briggs
River Marked

“I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn’t Buffy-I was so screwed.”
Patricia Briggs
Frost Burned

“I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.”
Patricia Briggs
River Marked

“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.”
Patricia Briggs
Alpha and Omega

“I’d have thought that persuading people to do what they wanted to do would have been easier.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Blood

“I’ve heard that Vlad the Impaler established without a doubt that having a stick up one’s ass was detrimental to one’s health. And I am very interested in keeping you healthy.”
Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat

“If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.”
Patricia Briggs
Raven’s Strike

“If I ever become a serial murderer, I’ll be very careful to kill people in a pattern that centres around a police station – and not my home or work.”
Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound

“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?”
Patricia Briggs
Silver Borne

“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 Quotes)
Patricia Briggs
Hunting Ground

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

“If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?”
Patricia Briggs
Raven’s Strike

“If you don’t stop playing with that dress, I’m going to rip it right off of you, and we won’t be heading for dinner.”
Patricia Briggs
Bone Crossed

“If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.”
Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat

“If you want to stay here, that’s something different. But thinking that you are the only one who can possibly keep her company – that’s a trap.”
Patricia Briggs
Fire Touched

“I’m a mechanic; I fix things that are broken. I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote. I have powerful friends. But when it comes right down to it, my real superpower is chaos.” -Mercy”
Patricia Briggs
Silence Fallen

“I’m a wolf ma’am. Not a cat. I don’t play around with my prey.”
Patricia Briggs
Shifting Shadows

“Intelligent men are dangerous.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Bones

“It comes with being a teenager—you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty.”
Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat

“It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others.”
Patricia Briggs
Shifting Shadows

“It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.”
Patricia Briggs
The Hob’s Bargain

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

“It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.”
Patricia Briggs
Fair Game

“It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.”
Patricia Briggs
River Marked

“It was much more civilized than she had expected her dad to tolerate. It took her a minute to realize it was too quiet.”
Patricia Briggs
Wild Sign

“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
Iron Kissed

“It would have been humiliating if he hadn’t been clutching me back just as hard.”
Patricia Briggs
Frost Burned

“It’s bad to have an enemy with the kinds of resources these people apparently have—but it is infinitely worse to have crazy people as enemies.”
Patricia Briggs
Burn Bright

“Just be careful, Mary Jo. Be very careful. You’ve made mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. One you should not make is to imagine that Christy will ever be Adam’s mate. He is mine, and unlike her, I don’t throw away people who are mine.”
Patricia Briggs
Night Broken

“Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.”
Patricia Briggs
Raven’s Shadow

“Let’s save tomorrow’s troubles for tomorrow.”
Patricia Briggs
Raven’s Shadow

“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.”
Patricia Briggs
Frost Burned

“Like most people who own their own businesses, I work long hours that start early in the morning. So when someone calls me in the middle of the night, they’d better be dying.”
Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound

“Loneliness and fear ate at him, a loner by choice who had prided himself on his daring and courage.”
Patricia Briggs
The Hob’s Bargain

“Love is not necessary for sex.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Blood

“Love means leaving yourself vulnerable, knowing that there is someone to catch you when you fall. ~ Mercy”
Patricia Briggs
Night Broken

“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
Moon Called

“Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything about the finger, but it kept coming up in my thoughts. I’ve never had a finger thrown at me before. A new-and-improved addition to my creepy-hall-of-fame nightmares.” (Patricia Briggs Quotes)
Patricia Briggs
Night Broken

“Maybe my mother had been right, and I should have been a lawyer. She always maintained that at least as a lawyer my contrary nature would be an asset.”
Patricia Briggs
Iron Kissed

“Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to him, even though the moon was not full. She didn’t speak to me, but Samuel had once described her song to me in the words of a poet. The expression of bliss on his face while he listened to her music made him beautiful.”
Patricia Briggs
Moon Called

“Most English speakers in Europe, I was discovering, had learned to speak British English rather than the American version.”
Patricia Briggs
Silence Fallen

“My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man’s speech.”
Patricia Briggs
Raven’s Shadow

“My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.”
Patricia Briggs
Raven’s Shadow

“My love,” he said, his voice intent, “you are welcome to all that I am, all that I have. I would destroy the planet for you. I was even diplomatic for you, which was a bigger sacrifice. A little power drain is nothing.”
Patricia Briggs
Silence Fallen

“My old pastor liked to say that church is a hospital for the sick, not a mausoleum for the saints.”
Patricia Briggs
Storm Cursed

“My soul was a lot more battered than my body, but I couldn’t see it in the mirror. Hopefully no one else could either.”
Patricia Briggs
Bone Crossed

“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.”
Patricia Briggs
Silver Borne

“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
Fair Game

“Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.”
Patricia Briggs
Fair Game

“Never run from a predator. Even the most behaved of them will have a hard time restraining themselves from chasing after a prey.”
Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound

“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
Blood Bound

“Not all relationships that end are failures.”
Patricia Briggs
Smoke Bitten

“Nothing says you’re sorry like a dead bunny.”
Patricia Briggs
River Marked

“Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth.”
Patricia Briggs
Moon Called

“One by one, two by two, the Hardesty witches are traveling through. With a storm of curses, they call from their tomes; they will drink your blood and dine on your bones.”
Patricia Briggs
Storm Cursed

“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.”
Patricia Briggs
Bone Crossed

“Only cowards torture women.”
Patricia Briggs
Raven’s Shadow

“Only in his own thoughts did Charles use his mother’s name. He thought that was safe, that it wouldn’t call her back from the land of the dead.”
Patricia Briggs
Wild Sign

“Ours, said Brother Wolf. She is perfect, our soul mate, our anchor, the reason we were created. So that we could be hers.”
Patricia Briggs
Burn Bright

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

“People always wanted someone to blame, didn’t they?”
Patricia Briggs
On the Prowl

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

“People died when Bran was at his most reasonable. Some of them died horribly. All of them idiots.”
Patricia Briggs
Shifting Shadows

“People who say that vampires don’t care about anyone except themselves are mostly right—but sometimes they are very and lethally wrong.”
Patricia Briggs
Fire Touched

“People who stand in the way of my mate’s ability to get herself out of trouble often feel like they were hit by buses. I think this might be the first time it is literally true, though.”
Patricia Briggs
Silence Fallen

“People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.”
Patricia Briggs
The Hob’s Bargain

“She had the sudden feeling that if she could look into those eyes for the rest of her life, she would be happy. It scared her a lot more than his anger had.”
Patricia Briggs
Alpha and Omega

“She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery— boredom.”
Patricia Briggs
Steal the Dragon

“She would have to learn to accept that he was a man of his word. In the meantime he would give her something to think about.” (Patricia Briggs Quotes)
Patricia Briggs
Alpha and Omega

“So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.”
Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound

“Some people are boys longer than others.”
Patricia Briggs
Iron Kissed

“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
Iron Kissed

“Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there’s no such things as ghosts.”
Patricia Briggs
Moon Called

“Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.”
Patricia Briggs
Raven’s Strike

“Someday, I’m going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner – but I’m not going to hold my breath.”
Patricia Briggs
River Marked

“Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Bones

“Sometimes the most interesting part of the conversation with someone who can’t lie is the questions they don’t answer.”
Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound

“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.”
Patricia Briggs
Steal the Dragon

“Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.”
Patricia Briggs
Silver Borne

“Surviving the Change was not something one usually did for days—or even hours. In Charles’s experience, the Change from human to werewolf happened in under an hour or it didn’t happen at all.”
Patricia Briggs
Wild Sign

“Survivors can’t always choose their methods.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Blood

“Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.”
Patricia Briggs
River Marked

“Take happiness where you can,” he said. “It seldom lasts—’course, neither does sorrow, right?”
Patricia Briggs
Fire Touched

“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
Frost Burned

“That swipe had more in common with a bear’s attack than a timber wolf’s. If it hit me, it could kill me with a single blow.”
Patricia Briggs
Storm Cursed

“That was Bran, quiet and calm until he ripped out your throat.”
Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound

“The Arabians might not suit you; they don’t suit everyone. They are like cats: vain, beautiful, and intelligent. But you deal well enough with Asil, who is also vain, beautiful, and intelligent.”
Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat

“The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.”
Patricia Briggs
Hunting Ground

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

“The group of rogue Cantrip agents that kidnapped the pack in order to make you go assassinate their target had a list, didn’t they?”
Patricia Briggs
Storm Cursed

“The hospital issue was a pale beige color that made my Native-toned skin look greenish.”
Patricia Briggs
Smoke Bitten

“The main thing to remember is that making love is at once the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Blood

“The next time you leap into a burning building after me, you’d better make damned sure I’m in there. And wear your shoes, damn it.”
Patricia Briggs
Silver Borne

“The older you are, the more you fear change, even if you think you are in charge. Especially if you think you are in charge.”
Patricia Briggs
Frost Burned

“The only certainty life contains is death.”
Patricia Briggs
When Demons Walk

“The problem was that she didn’t need rescuing, except maybe from them. The force of their concern, of their knowing that she had been a victim made her feel like a victim again.”
Patricia Briggs
Burn Bright

“The problem with deciding to bend the rules was trying to figure out just how far you could bend them.”
Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound

“The trick to staying out of trouble is to keep your nose out of other people’s business.”
Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound

“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
Iron Kissed

“The witches who ruled here must have done something to disguise it. He could tell that neither Anna nor Tag felt anything. But to him the very ground vibrated.”
Patricia Briggs
Wild Sign

“The wolf wanted to bed her and claim her as his own. Being of a more cautious nature than his wolf, he would wait until he knew her a little better before deciding to court her.”
Patricia Briggs
Alpha and Omega

“Then he’d come back home and found out that war didn’t cause fear—love did.” (Patricia Briggs Quotes)
Patricia Briggs
Frost Burned

“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
Frost Burned

“There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience”
Patricia Briggs
Silver Borne

“There is something about having someone take care of you, even when you don’t need it – maybe especially when you don’t need it.”
Patricia Briggs
Iron Kissed

“There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.”
Patricia Briggs
Fair Game

“There was another pause, then the Marrok said in that light pleasant tone that warned everyone who knew him that all hell was about to break loose.”
Patricia Briggs
Hunting Ground

“There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.”
Patricia Briggs
Bone Crossed

“There’s something really disturbing about finding out how little you really know about something you felt like you were an expert on.”
Patricia Briggs
Iron Kissed

“They tried to take us once before,” she said, watching him narrowly. “The Hardesty witches. Some sacrifices were necessary to ensure our survival.”
Patricia Briggs
Storm Cursed

“Things change whether you want them to, or not–unless you are dead. Don’t hold so hard to the past that you die with it.”
Patricia Briggs
River Marked

“This world has need of song and sword.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Bones

“Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.”
Patricia Briggs
Raven’s Strike

“To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.”
Patricia Briggs
Hunting Ground

“Too much knowledge can make you paranoid all the time.”
Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat

“Touch is better than any word.”
Patricia Briggs
Fire Touched

“Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.”
Patricia Briggs
River Marked

“Truth has many facets. Choose the ones that make her happy to be alive instead of the ones that make her want to smack you.”
Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat

“Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.”
Patricia Briggs
Bone Crossed

“Trying is always enough.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Bones

“Unofficial offers from government officials are notoriously dangerous.”
Patricia Briggs
Wild Sign

“We appreciate the help you have given us so far, but your usefulness ends here.”
Patricia Briggs
Iron Kissed

“We are all monsters here, he said. It’s too late for any of us to be anything else.”
Patricia Briggs
Fire Touched

“We brought death to our enemies, and I loved the power of it. And that final love, one I shared with my father, frightened me more than any battle ever could.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Bones

“We have you safe. You are ours. No hand will touch you if you do not wish it.”
Patricia Briggs
Wild Sign

“We’re the good guys. That we’re scary doesn’t mean we’re the villains.”
Patricia Briggs
Frost Burned

“What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn’t read Tolkien.”
Patricia Briggs
Fair Game

“When life doesn’t meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.”
Patricia Briggs
When Demons Walk

“When you turn something into stone, you take out the moisture that makes most of the bulk of flesh. A really good mage could turn you into a pebble,” said the really good mage before me.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Bones

“Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.”
Patricia Briggs
Silver Borne

“Whether those lives are a couple of decades or a couple of centuries long, living means that we get hurt, and some of those wounds don’t heal or they don’t heal completely.”
Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat

“Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?”
Patricia Briggs
On the Prowl

“Witches are bitches and they’ll burn your britches sure as kittens have itches if you give’ em half a chance.”
Patricia Briggs
Silence Fallen

“Wolf,” she said. “Married is wonderful, married is lovely. But I loved you before that, and you were mine before that. Only you for me—only me for you. That’s how it was before our marriage.” The smile fell away and left her pale and determined. “That’s how it was when I found you in that pit trap all those years ago—I knew as soon as I first saw your eyes. But then, I’ve known all my life what love is. It took you, who had nothing to compare it to, rather longer to figure out, to understand what is between us. But even when you did not understand or recognize it—it was always love.”
Patricia Briggs
Wolfsbane

“You cannot look at a person, and say, ‘If I could change this or that, if I could pick what I want and discard other things, I could love this one.’ Such a love is pale and weak—and doomed to failure.”
Patricia Briggs
Burn Bright

“You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.”
Patricia Briggs
Raven’s Strike

“You can’t cage an eagle for long without destroying it.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Blood

“You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.”
Patricia Briggs
Dragon Bones

“You should quit worrying about him and start worrying about how you are going to deal with accepting the situation you got yourself into.”
Patricia Briggs
Fair Game