Patricia Briggs Quotes

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

This world has need of song and sword.

~ Patricia Briggs

The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.

~ Patricia Briggs

Love is not necessary for sex.

~ Patricia Briggs

If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music.

~ Patricia Briggs

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

~ Patricia Briggs

You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

~ Patricia Briggs

Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.

~ Patricia Briggs

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.

~ Patricia Briggs

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

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

~ Patricia Briggs

A king who trusts no man is weak.

~ Patricia Briggs

My mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was the truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something they think will get the results they want.

~ Patricia Briggs

My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, “And to think I was always worried that you didn’t have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.

~ Patricia Briggs

Some people are boys longer than others.

~ Patricia Briggs

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

Almost-Sister, you picked a real catch.”“It was I who caught her,” Adam said softly. “It took years.

~ Patricia Briggs

Brother Wolf gave Anna an amused look and then went back to being scary.

~ Patricia Briggs

When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.

~ Patricia Briggs

Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.

~ Patricia Briggs

Evil must always be fought.

~ Patricia Briggs

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?

~ Patricia Briggs

You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.

~ Patricia Briggs

A rape victim... a rape victim who fights...They've been violated, made helpless and afraid. It breaks their confidence in the safety of their little world. It makes them afraid. .... If you don't fight, it's not quite the same. If they make you help, make you cooperate, then it's not clear to you anymore. Is it rape? You feel dirty, violated, and guilty. Most of all guilty because you should have fought. Especially if you're Mercy and you fight everything.

~ Patricia Briggs

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

~ Patricia Briggs

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

~ Patricia Briggs

I thought it would be quieter here.” [Anna] hadn’t meant to say anything, but the noise startled her. “The wind in the trees,” Bran said. “And there are some birds that stay year-round. Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.

~ Patricia Briggs

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

~ Patricia Briggs

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

Jumping Jehoshaphat. O Holy Night.

~ Patricia Briggs

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.

~ Patricia Briggs

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.

~ Patricia Briggs

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.

~ Patricia Briggs

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

~ Patricia Briggs

If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.

~ Patricia Briggs

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.

~ Patricia Briggs

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

You are a sick, sick man,” I told him.“Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.

~ Patricia Briggs

Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

~ Patricia Briggs

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