Quotes from Patricia Briggs

Mirror, mirror, on the wall," Asil murmured when Tad quit speaking. "Shh," said Tad. "This isn't that mirror. That mirror broke, and good riddance to it. Let's not give this one ideas, please.

Stupid young girls who get caught alone in the forest fall prey to anything that crosses their paths, be the beast animal, human or shapeshifter.

Why was it that I was always trying to handle the werewolves instead of the other way around? Maybe because Adam's other form had big claws and great big teeth.

Lugh's walking stick ate the Gray Lord's spell, and in doing so, it died. To save me.

Even knowing that David Bowie is gone, I am giddy about this." He said all that in a very dry, professional tone.

He sees people—all the way through them—and he likes them anyway.

an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. (Adam)

The Arabs I rode herding cattle with your father in the fifties and sixties would do a full day's work for twenty years, seven days a week, and retire sound." He snorted. "The drive now is for pretty lawn ornaments. The Arabian horses were originally bred as weapons of war, and now they are artwork.

Several years ago, another werewolf had approached me at the garage, looking for a place to be. He was dead.

It's easier to be horrible if you can squash everyone who tries to stop you.

I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

Silver was too hard to be good ammunition.

I backed the Mercedes out of the garage and waited for Gabriel to close the door and get in. "Your eyes are gold, Mercy," said Gabriel as he slid into the front seat. "I didn't know they did that.

All things die, Mercy. Some just takes longer than others. (Charles)

It is not wise," Beauclaire said, his voice clipped, and somewhere in the vowels Anna heard an accent not too far from Bran's when he was angered. "It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.

I put my cell phone in my back pocket (a habit that has destroyed two phones so far) and tried to blank my face. It wouldn't help with the werewolves, who would be able to smell my distress, but at least I wouldn't have complete strangers stop and ask me what was wrong.

Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.

Samuel is going to get you a blanket," I told him firmly. "And a pillow. You are going to sleep for the day in my closet. Dead people don't get to stay in my bedroom.

Anna came into the bedroom with a big red towel wrapped around herself and nothing else. Her reddish-brown hair was tied up on top of her head, and there was a drop of water on his favorite freckle. They were all his favorite freckles.

There is no life without death.

Sometime soon, I will deal with the fae who have offended me in such a way that others avoid annoying me for another century or two. That's a good plan for the next few weeks, I think. Findest du nicht auch?

It is my privilege," I said carefully, trying not to tweak his pride, "to do those things that are easier for me than for you. You do the same for me.

suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.

scars do not bother me. They are the laurels of the survivor.