Quotes from 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

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.

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.

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

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.

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

Don't fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don't need to swallow you whole, I don't need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you're there.

I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.

But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.

It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.

You forgot the 'my precious,'" Anna said dryly. "If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.

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.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They're either charging too much money for their work, or they can't keep an old car running - maybe both.

I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

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

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too.