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Quotes About Power

Brother Wolf gave Anna an amused look and then went back to being scary.
~ Patricia Briggs
Beauclaire focused his attention, and I felt his magic send shivers of ice along my arms.
~ Patricia Briggs
He gave me that lazy smile that had always had the power to make my heart beat faster. I was dismayed to see that it still worked.
~ Patricia Briggs
I couldn't stay in that room with both men one more minute... Even a human woman could have drowned in the testosterone in the air, it was so strong.
~ Patricia Briggs
Fire is a powerful thing. It cleanses as it destroys- and it brings light to darkness.
~ Patricia Briggs
I knew a little bit about Prague. The first thing that came to mind was that Prague citizens had a habit of throwing powerful officials out of windows—the Second Defenestration of Prague began the Thirty Years War in 1618. There wasn't another capital city with a First Defenestration that I knew of, let alone a second one. Prague was full of my kind of people.
~ Patricia Briggs
You scratch whatever itches you choose," Charles told her, his voice cold and quiet."Enjoy yourself. But at the end of the day, you remember that Isaac belongs to my father—and to me. He is necessary to us as you are not. You will leave him unharmed or I will hunt you down and destroy you.
~ Patricia Briggs
She is a black witch," Charles said, equally quietly. "We have always been enemies. For right now, we are aimed at the same target; that is all. If your target is pleasure and you're sure that's what hers is, too, that's fine. Just remember—a black witch doesn't love anything but power.
~ Patricia Briggs
Beauclaire, for his part, sank back in the soft material of the couch as if the thought that it would impede him should he have to move quickly never occurred to him. I'm not afraid of anyone here, his body posture said. Charles's—relaxed, arms folded loosely, chin slightly tilted—said, You're boring me; either fight and die—or back off.
~ Patricia Briggs
We brought death to our enemies, and I loved the power of it. And that final love, one I shared with my father, frightened me more than any battle ever could.
~ Patricia Briggs
Maia was either going to grow up to rule the world or loose a planetwide plague upon the land. Maybe both.
~ Patricia Briggs
If you touch me, Charles will hunt you down and eat your marrow while you are still alive to scream." She called upon her two acting classes and let her mouth turn up. "I'll be happy to watch." She licked her lips. The smile dropped off his face, and he growled.
~ Patricia Briggs
Honey will wipe the floor with you." His eyes went half-mast, and his voice dropped in evident pleasure. "I know.
~ Patricia Briggs
I am always careful with the truth. It is a powerful thing and deserves respect. (Tad)
~ Patricia Briggs
As long as I thought what he wanted me to think, he liked it when I thought for myself.
~ Patricia Briggs
When you turn something into stone, you take out the moisture that makes most of the bulk of flesh. A really good mage could turn you into a pebble," said the really good mage before me.
~ Patricia Briggs
It is one of those nondenominational churches so busy not condemning anyone that it has little power to attract a steady congregation.
~ Patricia Briggs
That swipe had more in common with a bear's attack than a timber wolf's. If it hit me, it could kill me with a single blow.
~ Patricia Briggs
They have no more," Sherwood said, his eyes wolf-bright and his voice nearly guttural.
~ Patricia Briggs
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.
~ Patricia Briggs
Coyote's Daughter," he said. "We shall sing them to the great death.
~ Patricia Briggs
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.
~ Patricia Briggs
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.
~ Patricia Briggs
Lugh's walking stick ate the Gray Lord's spell, and in doing so, it died. To save me.
~ Patricia Briggs