Explore Quotes by Patricia Briggs

It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn’t love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had to hide. He didn’t love me so he might hurt me when he was angry. When he calmed down, that would hurt him. I didn’t want him hurting because of me. There was nowhere for a person to hide. So I wouldn’t be a person. My eyes fell on the shelves that lined the far back corner. A coyote could hide there.

A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned,” I murmured. Warren—who had once, a long time ago, been a cowboy—snickered and wiggled his bare feet. “It could be the beginning of either a bad joke or a horror story.” “No,” said Kyle, the lawyer, whose head was propped up on my thigh. “If you want a horror story, you have to start out with a werewolf, his gorgeous lover, and a walker.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

I liked Lost in Space,” Stefan said. “The movie or the TV series?” “The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie,” he said soberly. “It was better that way.

I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.

Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.

I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member." Much awkwardness ensued.

All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle. Animals have possibilities that are greater than that of a fir tree or a blade of grass. Still, though, for most animals, the pattern of instinct, the patterns of their lives, are very strong. Humanity has a far greater range of possibilities, especially the very young. Who will children grow up to be? Who will they marry, what will they believe, what will they create? Creation is a very powerful seed of possibility.

I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.

I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.

When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.