Quotes from Patricia Briggs

His smile grew, and the dimple appeared and … and I kissed him. I rested my body against him, at an angle so I didn't squish the cat, and thought, Here is my happiness. Here is my reason to survive. Here is my home.

Scaring people is fun," said the witch, stepping out of the shadows about ten feet from the porch.

There is something about having someone take care of you, even when you don't need it – maybe especially when you don't need it.

The older you are, the more you fear change, even if you think you're in charge. Especially if you think you're in charge. (Adam)

It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others.

Survival is not a pretty business.

Humans, in her experience, were weak and fragile things prone to dying and breeding with about the same frequency.

That the feeling I got from them through the pack bonds was eagerness for the hunt was a testimony that all werewolves are crazy.

This is our territory," I said, giving him the words he needed. "We don't allow black magic in our territory.

Yes, sir," she said, clearly not believing him. He reminded himself that a man's word didn't count for much in this modern day.

If you want to stay here, that's something different. But thinking that you are the only one who can possibly keep her company - that's a trap." (p. 320)

He didn't think she was his enemy. But certainly not his friend.

One, one, two, zero," I told him through the chattering of my teeth. "It's my birthday.

The next time you leap into a burning building after me, you'd better make damned sure I'm in there. And wear your shoes, damn it.

Only an evil man needs to fear a good man.

People died when Bran was at his most reasonable. Some of them died horribly. All of them idiots.

Want to explain to the kid that I'm more a Spike than a Buffy? A villain, not a superhero?

Warren and his boyfriend had put on a Thanksgiving dinner for their friends who didn't have families to go home to. Being gay meant they had a number of friends with no welcoming families. Mary

It is one of those nondenominational churches so busy not condemning anyone that it has little power to attract a steady congregation.

With Anna he had no shield—Charles belonged to Anna with all his complicated soul and uncomplicated heart.

Leslie absorbed that. "If that's so, I peg our Anna at sixteen and her husband at ten thousand and change.

The problem was that she didn't need rescuing, except maybe from them. The force of their concern, of their knowing that she had been a victim made her feel like a victim again.

Adam leaned down to Paul. "That edge you lost in your fight with Mary Jo is what allowed me to take the time to find something that would hurt you instead of kill you. You can thank her for your life.

Laeth returned her smile with one as wicked, as he posed the favorite question of one of the combat instructors, "How many ways are there to kill a person with a knife?" "It doesn't matter, it only takes one to do the job," returned Rialla.