Patricia Briggs
Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.Collection: Vampire
I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.Collection: Stupid
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.Collection: Daughter
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."Collection: Biblical
New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.Collection: Father
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.Collection: Real
Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Giving Up
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.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Son
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.Collection: Brother
Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin)Collection: Crazy
He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with CharlesCollection: Keys
"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."Collection: Fire
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.Collection: Lying
I don’t think you’re supposed to be able to get at that information,” said Leslie. “Don’t look,” said Goldstein, peering over Charles’s shoulder. “We don’t know anything about illegal hacking.” He whistled cheerily.Collection: Thinking
If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.Collection: Knitting
Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.Collection: Talking
You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.Collection: Half
Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.Collection: Hurt
You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Coffee
Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.Collection: Team
It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.Collection: Broken
No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.Collection: Jeans
If you leave me naked and waiting on the bed without making love to me, I’ll—” I didn’t get to finish the threat. I think it was the word “naked,” though maybe it was “bed,” but before I finished my sentence, he was on me. Mercy to AdamCollection: Thinking
Over the years, she'd learned not to question him to closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.Collection: Years
You okay now ?" he asked. "Okay." He tightened his arms and lifted me off my feet. "Mercy?" he growled into my ear. I wrapped my legs around his waist. " Yeah" , I said. "Me too.Collection: Feet
I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.Collection: Dragons
I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member." Much awkwardness ensued.Collection: Giving
Any idiot can put up a website.Collection: Idiot
I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.Collection: Reflection
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 CharlesCollection: Sorry
Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.Collection: Iron
I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.Collection: Fighting
When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.Collection: Beautiful
The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.Collection: Makers
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.Collection: Secret
Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.Collection: Adam
Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.Collection: Sorry
Mercy is not a proper Indian name."..........."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.Collection: Running
Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kidnapping." "I forgot about that." And I was appalled because I knew better. "Bran and Samuel are probably more of a danger than any of the fae," I told him. "Someday, I'll tell you about some of the more spectaculare wedding antics Samuel's told me about." Some of them made kidnapping look mild.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Voice
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.Collection: Struggle
Mmm, he rumbled into my ear. I thought that being married meant that I never go to bed hungry.Collection: Bed
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.Collection: Life
Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.Collection: Numbers
Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me—not if I could help it.Collection: Helping
I don't break; I bounce.Collection: Break