Quotes from Patricia Briggs

Not for the first time, he wished for a more facile tongue. His brother could sometimes change the Marrok's mind—but he never had. This time, Charles knew his father was wrong.

If you had let me," he said, "I'd have courted you gently and won your heart." He closed his eyes. "I didn't mean to frighten you.

Under the mellowing influence of good food and good music, Adam relaxed, and I discovered that underneath that overbearing, hot-tempered Alpha disguise he usually wore was a charming, overbearing, hot-tempered man. He seemed to enjoy finding out that I was as stubborn and disrespectful of authority as he'd always suspected.

If I were a vampire, I think I'd only wear black or dark brown—to hide the stains.

I won't be forced either. I've had enough. If that makes me a dog in the manger, so be it. But if I am yours, then you damned well are going to be mine.

Oh, I just adore nasties.

identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

You don't want me as your mate, Mercy, so why are you miffed that my wolf finally admitted defeat?

Take it from me, anyone who lives with you is occasionally going to wonder who your liver might taste, and not because they are hungry. It comes with being a teenager - you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty.

I'd never felt like this after a fight, though. Usually, I feel energized and cheerful, not sick and scared out of my skin.

My grandfather always said that if you don't argue, you can't be proved wrong.

The bones meant that I had broken faith with the vampires and was no longer under their protection—and anyone offering me aid of any kind was likely to find themselves on the wrong side of the vampires as well.

Mostly they just confused us with skinwalkers. Since walkers and skinwalkers are both Native American shapeshifters, I can sort of understand it. Especially since I'm pretty sure the walker label came from some dumb white person who couldn't tell the difference.

Most English speakers in Europe, I was discovering, had learned to speak British English rather than the American version.

And you know what Ren says about coincidence." "Usually, coincidences aren't

Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come.

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

Love, like any other living thing, needs to be fed. Only if you starve it will it die.

All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

only a fool asks Grandpa Gordon anything: He just might answer.

Sleeping was not the usual reaction people had when he pointed out that he killed people.

Hers. He was hers, whispered that part of her that didn't worry about human concerns. Whatever fears Anna had about the rapid changes in her life, her wolf half was very happy with the events of the past few days.

Did you bring this into bed last night?" he asked. I flexed my fingers, frowning with annoyance at the walking stick.

I am Elizaveta Arkadyevna Vyshnevetskaya, of house Kikimora. I can trace my bloodline a thousand years.