Patricia Briggs
Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.Collection: Trying
I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?Collection: Hero
Wizards don't all look alike.Collection: Looks
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.Collection: Book
When we got to the moron who was sitting in the only path to the stairway, Adam caught my waist and lifted me over before stepping over the man himself. “Scott?” Adam said as we headed upstairs. “Yeah?” “Unless someone shoots you, skins you, and throws the results on the floor, I don’t want to see you lying in the walkway again.” “Yessir!Collection: Lying
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?Collection: Important
Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.Collection: Tomorrow
I can't protect you from knowledge.Collection: Protect You
Most of the pack would rather have Darryl mad at them than Auriele.Collection: Mad
My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.Collection: Father
Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.Collection: Time
Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.Collection: Peanut Butter
When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle herCollection: Heart
Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ BranCollection: Choices
Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.Collection: Matter
We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we areCollection: Perfect
A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct- Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he's take over the world- my life, if I let him. MercyCollection: Strong
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.Collection: Hero
Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.Collection: Fighting
The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.Collection: Sex
Much awkwardness ensued.Collection: Awkwardness
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.Collection: Sex
You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.Collection: Want
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 thatCollection: Father
Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.Collection: Car
I don't like it when I outweigh my men.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Jobs
She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.Collection: Depression
It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.Collection: Daylight
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.Collection: Ideas
I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.Collection: Dream
Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach,” I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. “ ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.Collection: Peaches
Some people are boys longer than others.Collection: Boys
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.Collection: Worried
Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Grateful
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.Collection: Ghost Stories
My mother was a children’s librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as ‘authentic Indian stories’ when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.Collection: Stories
A dominant wolf’s desire to protect was a strong instinct- Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he’s take over the world- my life, if I let him. Mercy.Collection: Strong
You’d tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.Collection: Stories