Quotes from Patricia Briggs

She's a good person, but she is a weak person, too. She can't take care of anyone else because she's too busy taking care of herself." I

I'll get some more firewood," I said, turning away from the fire. "What we have won't last the night." "Best do that, I think," Kith said. "Wandel and I'll see about dinner." "I thought the woman should do the cooking," said Wandel, teasing but still half-serious. He hadn't eaten what I could cook over an open fire. "We'll cook," replied Kith, who had.

Every boarding party needs its guide to light the way, its wizard to defeat the magic and a tank that kill everything that tries to stop the party. The tank is not sacrificial.

Just then Warren's breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right?

The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom.

We've determined that Ms. Hauptman is a potential threat to the public safety, and we are bringing her in as a murder suspect who has supernatural powers that make her too dangerous to be incarcerated in the usual ways.

until I met him today." He turned to Jes. "Who is the forest

They have no more," Sherwood said, his eyes wolf-bright and his voice nearly guttural.

She said, once, shortly before she died, that roses smelled like happiness. Whenever she smelled a rose, she thought of the day we met.

Some people need to shut their mouths in order to use their brains

The one who made that poor shadow is long dead." The wolf in human-seeming almost glowed with power. "They have neither the learning nor the power to make him again. They would not have risked him if they had known who was here. I have made him free, my poor brother that was.

Yes. She had picked out the tiles in the kitchen, hadn't she? I regarded Aiden with a little more favor than I'd felt before.

Some people, me, get a black eye and other people ask "who beat you up?" Other people, Spielman, get a black eye and other people say "where did they bury the other guy?

She slanted a thoughtful look at Bran, who was talking animatedly with my stepfather. My stepfather was a dentist. Bran ruled werewolves. I didn't want to know what they had in common to get that excited about.

Coyote's Daughter," he said. "We shall sing them to the great death.

But I've learned that there are always terrible things, and sometimes it is very important to grasp what joy and beauty you can, whenever you can.

The group of rogue Cantrip agents that kidnapped the pack in order to make you go assassinate their target had a list, didn't they?

I could use you, training the Castle guards," offered the Reeve, "but I have to warn you that the last man to hold the post of captain quit." The guard's eyebrows rose. "I wouldn't have thought that Castle guards would be that difficult." "They're not," returned Kerim. "My lady mother, however is.

He slept on the foot of my bed. When I suggested he might be more comfortable in his room, he regarded me steadily with ice-colored eyes. Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.

Medea yowled at me and stropped my leg, broadcasting the information that no one had fed her. Cats lie, and I was pretty sure she was lying. But feeding her made me happy and made her happy.

Second, it sometimes left me standing in the dark, listening to someone being killed while they cried out to me. For Mercy.

Then suddenly Coyote stopped, turned to me, grabbed me by my hands, looked into my eyes, and said, "Her name is Death.

Marsilia had just apologized to me. Hell must have been experiencing some climate change.

Son of a bitch. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was Coyote or the son of Satan. He was a dead man walking.