Quotes from Patricia Briggs

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.

She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

You're a dead man," Kyle said. "Warren doesn't take kindly to people who hurt me.

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

When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.

Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .

Just as I've always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I've always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.

Apparently deciding Charles's brief introduction wasn't good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. "Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—

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.

Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.

I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.

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

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

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

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

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.

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

That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me." I nodded toward the mess. "And if you knew my life, you'd realize just how freaky that is.

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she'd end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.

The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.

For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.