Quotes by Patricia Briggs

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail.”She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. “And damned be he—she—who cries, ‘Hold, enough!’”“Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you,” I told her, and she laughed.

Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest, Adam told him. He had decided a while ago that it wasnt deliberate, and that it had something to do with being Coyotes daughter. He was pretty sure that Mercy was completely oblivious.

Honey will wipe the floor with you. His eyes went half-mast, and his voice dropped in evident pleasure. I know.

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them.

Reincarnation?”He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make someone willing to come back.

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

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

“Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.”

“I dont like lies, said Bran, and I knew Id failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.”

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

“I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.”

“The only certainty life contains is death.”

“I dont like it when I outweigh my men.”

“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.”