Quotes by Patricia Briggs

It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

I dont say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.

Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

I cant protect you from knowledge.

I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting.“You need to be more careful,” he growled. “Keep interfering in my business and you might get hurt.”I said sweetly as I continued to Jesses room, “The last man who swatted me like that is rotting in his grave.”“I have no doubt about it.” His voice was more satisfied then contrite.

I don’t know who you think you are” — my mother’s voice was low and dangerous — “but if you don’t get out of my way right this instant, it won’t matter.”Adam was the Alpha werewolf in charge of the local pack. He was tough. He could be mean when he had to — and he wouldn’t stand a chance against my mom.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

He sighed. I dont think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldnt do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldnt do anything differently, would you?No.

Then hed come back home and found out that war didnt cause fear—love did.

You cant cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

You are looking at this wrong. You think I hold my territory by the might of my fist. But thats not it. I hold my territory by consent of the governed. I think it is a very American concept, which might be why you never looked for it. — Adam Hauptman, Columbia Basin Pack Alpha, to Iacopo (Jacob) Bonarata, Lord of the Night (master vampire of Milan)

Women are the bloodthirsty sex, said Ric sadly. We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, Kill it. Squish it.

Only cowards torture women.

Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesnt mean in winter.

One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn’t believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs.