Patricia Briggs Quotes

I don't like it when I outweigh my men.

~ Patricia Briggs

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

~ Patricia Briggs

The only certainty life contains is death.

~ Patricia Briggs

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

~ Patricia Briggs

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

~ Patricia Briggs

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

~ Patricia Briggs

Intelligent men are dangerous.

~ Patricia Briggs

Any idiot can put up a website.

~ Patricia Briggs

Civilization is vastly overrated.

~ Patricia Briggs

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 her.

~ Patricia Briggs

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.

~ Patricia Briggs

Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.

~ Patricia Briggs

Women are sneaky.

~ 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

What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

~ Patricia Briggs

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.

~ Patricia Briggs

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

She doesn’t need the pack. She doesn’t need me.”I shot to my feet. “That’s not true,” I said hotly.He tilted his head a little, his eyes meeting mine. His eyes softened. “I misspoke,” he said in a steady voice. “She doesn’t need me to make sure she has enough food or a place to live-that is my privilege, but she doesn’t need me to do that. She doesn’t need me to keep her safe or to make her a whole person. She doesn’t need me to do anything except love her. Which I do.

~ Patricia Briggs

It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.

~ Patricia Briggs

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

~ Patricia Briggs

I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.

~ Patricia Briggs

Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

~ Patricia Briggs

I can't protect you from knowledge.

~ Patricia Briggs

I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.

~ Patricia Briggs

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

~ Patricia Briggs

Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

~ 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

I don’t know who you think you are” — my mother’s voice was low and dangerous — “but if you don’t get out of my way right this instant, it won’t matter.”Adam was the Alpha werewolf in charge of the local pack. He was tough. He could be mean when he had to — and he wouldn’t stand a chance against my mom.

~ Patricia Briggs

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

~ Patricia Briggs

He sighed. I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?No.

~ Patricia Briggs

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

~ Patricia Briggs

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

~ Patricia Briggs

You are looking at this wrong. You think I hold my territory by the might of my fist. But that's not it. I hold my territory by consent of the governed. I think it is a very American concept, which might be why you never looked for it. — Adam Hauptman, Columbia Basin Pack Alpha, to Iacopo (Jacob) Bonarata, Lord of the Night (master vampire of Milan)

~ Patricia Briggs

Only cowards torture women.

~ 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

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

~ Patricia Briggs

One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn’t believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs.

~ Patricia Briggs

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

~ Patricia Briggs

All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities that are greater than that of a fir tree or a blade of grass. Still, though, for most animals, the pattern of instinct, the patterns of their lives, are very strong. Humanity has a far greater range of possibilities, especially the very young. Who will children grow up to be? Who will they marry, what will they believe, what will they create? Creation is a very powerful seed of possibility.

~ Patricia Briggs

Don't make light of any man's pain.

~ Patricia Briggs