Quotes from Patricia Briggs

Witchbane," he said. "Witch's Spawn." He grimaced, or maybe he smiled. "Something like that, maybe. I forget.

I would never disrespect your grandmother's rolling pin. Your old pack did everything in their power to turn you into a victim, and when that crazy wolf started for me, you still grabbed the rolling pin to defend me from him, even though you were terrified of him. I think it is the bravest thing I have ever seen. And possibly the only time anyone has tried to defend me since I reached adulthood.

I like who I am - but there are plenty of men who wouldn't. (Mercy)

You are arrogant and overstep your bounds," I told him, pointing my cleaned fork at him. "I try," he said with false modesty.

You'll figure it out," he assured her earnestly. She turned to him, eyes alight with ire—and then frowned. "Quit baiting me." He grinned. Unable to help himself. What a gift she was.

Touch is better than any word.

An Omega has all the protective instincts of an Alpha and none of the violent tendencies

Body language, when you know how to read it, can be more expressive than speech. (Mercy)

Coyote," said Hopi Woman dryly, "doesn't much worry about understanding anything, which is why he understands so much.

When you turn something into stone, you take out the moisture that makes most of the bulk of flesh. A really good mage could turn you into a pebble," said the really good mage before me.

The Prophet database (of course, the whole IT—computer geek—world called it the For-Profit database) was well written, but all the programs the mother company tried to sell with it were garbage.

I'd have thought that persuading people to do what they wanted to do would have been easier.

That, my dear uncultured wolf, is a Charlie Russell—cowboy turned artist. Without him, Montana's history would just be a footnote in a Zane Grey novel.

But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them. And I didn't love Samuel the way a woman should love her mate, the way I loved Adam. Samuel didn't love me that way either. Close, but not quite. And except in horseshoes and hand grenades, close doesn't count.

That which doesn't destroy us . . ." "Leaves us scratching our heads and saying, 'What's next?

He didn't hurt me before." Which let everyone in the room, except Kyle, know just how much Warrren cared about him. Even a crazed werewolf won't harm his mate.

Running from vampires, again. Still. Go me!

It would have been humiliating if he hadn't been clutching me back just as hard.

We know," she whispered to him. "We who have been hurt, we know what evil looks like. We know you make us safe.

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

Change is hard.And it doesn't matter much whether it is change for good or ill. (Adam)

Just because something is dangerous does not make it evil. (Adam)

Fewer people die when you are around. These are the facts. Being upset about them don't make them false.

I see your fear, they told her, but no harm will come to you by me.