Quotes from Patricia Briggs

Besides," he told her gently, "my wolf is more interested in courting you than in asserting his dominance.

I have seen him fight -- and so have you. I am not sure this is a fight we can win. But there is one thing I do know, and that is that we will not, we cannot, wait around until he kills another innocent. We might die fighting him, but if we do not try and stop him, we are already defeated.

Marriage is not as necessary for survival of the species as it used to be, and it has suffered somewhat from the change.

What are we hunting?" Anna's voice had lost the tautness of stress. "A treasure," said Tom. "The exact nature of which is a surprise.

Coyote never loses, Coyote told me. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?

Give that wolf of yours a nudge for me. I do love Russian men.

The taste of his blood in my mouth made me ill, and I vomited beside the body until the taste of bile overwhelmed anything else. Then I left him lying in the middle of the road and ran back to the garage. I needed to check on Mac before I took on the task of dealing with the dead werewolf

Are you not my daughter, whispered another voice, Coyote's voice

Rules are set up for the good of society. But as soon as you make a rule, someone feels the need to break it.

Don't look," said Goldstein, peering over the Charles's shoulder. "We don't know anything about illegal hacking." He whistled cheerily. "Travis Heuter owns half the world.

Don't mourn us until we're dead. ~ Samuel

English is not my first, nor even my fifth, language. Did you say 'a vampire friend'?

Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

some of the original authors like Hartman von Aue or Wolfram von Eschenbach.

But helping new wolves through this kind of situation had been one of Samuel's jobs in the pack I'd grown up in.

The Marrok knows," he whispered. "He always does. Everyone else believed I was the same, just like always. My father knew something was wrong, that I wasn't right. I was going to leave—but then you came.

Did the mean old werewolf stick the poor kitty in the box and leave her?" I asked. She smelled like my neighbor, which told me that Adam had spent some time with her on his lap before he'd brought her over here.

Making him feel horrible isn't what you want." She paused, considered what she said, then modified it. "Unless it is useful for him to feel horrible, of course. Mostly, though, I've found that isn't productive. Men who are miserable can be unpredictable.

I would rather you not get hurt by Viking twins . . ." She had to say it again. "Because Viking twins are apparently a thing here.

Love is both useful and powerful—but seldom convenient.

Whether those lives are a couple of decades or a couple of centuries long, living means that we get hurt, and some of those wounds don't heal or they don't heal completely.

they understand what I am and do not die

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway -- is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway? But curiosity is very nearly my besetting sin.

If you are going to use white man's words to describe yourself, 'avatar' is more accurate than 'walker.