Patricia Briggs Quotes

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

Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.

~ Patricia Briggs

For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever.“Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable.“Really what?” I asked.“Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?”He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me.“Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.

~ 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

Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.

~ Patricia Briggs

Are we going to Portland? I asked. Or Multnomah Falls?He smiled at me. Go to sleep.I waited three seconds. Are we there yet?His smile widened, and the last of the usual tension melted from his face. For a smile like that, I'd...do anything.

~ Patricia Briggs

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

~ Patricia Briggs

Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.

~ Patricia Briggs

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

~ Patricia Briggs

Yes,” I told him. “I think the guy playing the Pirate King was awesome.”He stopped where he was.“What?” I asked, frowning at the big smile on his face.“I didn’t say I liked the Pirate King,” he told me.“Oh.” I closed my eyes—and there he was. A warm, edgy presence right on the edge of my perception. When I opened my eyes, he was standing right in front of me. “Cool,” I told him. “You’re back.”He kissed me leisurely. When he was finished, I was more than ready to head home. Fast.“You make me laugh,” he told me seriously.

~ Patricia Briggs

I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.

~ Patricia Briggs

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

~ Patricia Briggs

I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.

~ Patricia Briggs

Matt Smith? I said. Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris.

~ Patricia Briggs

Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred.

~ Patricia Briggs

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.

~ Patricia Briggs

Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac

~ Patricia Briggs

The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom, it was the lack of desiring freedom.

~ Patricia Briggs

Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

~ Patricia Briggs

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.

~ Patricia Briggs

We've determined that Ms. Hauptman is a potential threat to the public safety, and we are bringing her in as a murder suspect who has supernatural powers that make her too dangerous to be incarcerated in the usual ways.

~ Patricia Briggs

What do you mean?” Leslie’s voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day.

~ 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

You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.

~ Patricia Briggs

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

~ Patricia Briggs

Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.”I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.”There was another pause. . .“That is the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard you say,” Bran said. “Be careful, Adam, or you’ll turn her into a real girl.”Adam looked at me. “I like her just the way she is, Bran.” And he meant it, greasy overalls, broken fingernails, and all.

~ Patricia Briggs

Then Walter died as he lived, he told his mate. A hero, a soldier, and a survivor who chose to protect what was precious to him. I don't think, if you could ask him, that he would have any regrets.

~ Patricia Briggs

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

~ Patricia Briggs

Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail.”She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. “And damned be he—she—who cries, ‘Hold, enough!’”“Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you,” I told her, and she laughed.

~ Patricia Briggs

Honey will wipe the floor with you. His eyes went half-mast, and his voice dropped in evident pleasure. I know.

~ Patricia Briggs

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

~ Patricia Briggs

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

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

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

~ Patricia Briggs

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

~ Patricia Briggs