Top 400 Patricia Briggs Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.”

— Patricia Briggs

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2. “I don’t get mad, I get even.”

— Patricia Briggs

3. “The only certainty life contains is death.”

— Patricia Briggs

4. “Never trust a mechanic who drives new cars. They’re either charging too much money for their work, or they can’t keep an old car running – maybe both.”

— Patricia Briggs

5. “Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.”

— Patricia Briggs

6. “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.”

— Patricia Briggs

7. “I don’t break; I bounce.”

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

10. “Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?”

— Patricia Briggs

11. “Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent’s blade.”

— Patricia Briggs

12. “Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.”

— Patricia Briggs

13. “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.”

— Patricia Briggs

14. “Women are sneaky.”

— Patricia Briggs

15. “The trick to staying out of trouble is to keep your nose out of other people’s business.”

— Patricia Briggs

16. “When life doesn’t meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.”

— Patricia Briggs

17. “He loved her beyond all reason and didn’t expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.”

— Patricia Briggs

18. “Nothing says you’re sorry like a dead bunny.”

— Patricia Briggs

19. “Read good books. Read bad books – and figure out why you don’t like them. Then don’t do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.”

— Patricia Briggs

20. “My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.”

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

22. “We are all monsters here, he said. It’s too late for any of us to be anything else.”

— Patricia Briggs

23. “Civilization is vastly overrated.”

— Patricia Briggs

24. “Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.”

— Patricia Briggs

25. “Zealots are like one track-pony. Don’t get in their way without expecting to get hurt.”

— Patricia Briggs

26. “Intelligent men are dangerous.”

— Patricia Briggs

27. “He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He’d discovered that he had never been brave before – just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.”

— Patricia Briggs

28. “Sometimes broken people stay broken.”

— Patricia Briggs

29. “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

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

— Patricia Briggs

31. “A man’s immortality can be found in his children.”

— Patricia Briggs

32. “I’ve been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends – and if I could do it before I scared myself.”

— Patricia Briggs

33. “Matt Smith?” I said. “Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris.”

— Patricia Briggs

34. “There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.”

— Patricia Briggs

35. “Let’s save tomorrow’s troubles for tomorrow.”

— Patricia Briggs

36. “If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do – and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.”

— Patricia Briggs

37. “If she know how strongly he felt, she’d have run out the door. He wasn’t used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music.”

— Patricia Briggs

38. “Mercy might be mated to Adam, but to his wolf she would always belong to Bran. Would always be his little coyote, who was tough and defiant, raised by a good friend because Bran couldn’t trust his mate with someone he cared about who was more fragile than his grown sons.”

— Patricia Briggs

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

— Patricia Briggs

40. “I’m a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires – outmatched is n understatement.”

— Patricia Briggs

41. “Truth has many facets. Choose the ones that make her happy to be alive instead of the ones that make her want to smack you.”

— Patricia Briggs

42. “She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.”

— Patricia Briggs

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43. “He’d woken up after flying from Boston to Montana to find his da cooking breakfast for them: sausage and pancakes shaped like deer. It wasn’t just any deer, either – they looked like Bambi from the disney cartoon. Charles didn’t want to know how his father had managed that.”

— Patricia Briggs

44. “Wizards are a secretive lot.”

— Patricia Briggs

45. “There is magic in places that are between: crossroads, thresholds, bridges.”

— Patricia Briggs

46. “Male werewolves treat their mates like beloved slaves. the thought set my back up. It was just a good thing I wasn’t a werewolf or there would be a slave rebellion.”

— Patricia Briggs

47. “My mother was a children’s librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as ‘authentic Indian stories’ when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.”

— Patricia Briggs

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48. “Any idiot can put up a website.”

— Patricia Briggs

49. “But despair was not a synonym for sorrow or regret. Despair was the loss of hope.”

— Patricia Briggs

50. “You cannot look at a person, and say, ‘If I could change this or that, if I could pick what I want and discard other things, I could love this one.’ Such a love is pale and weak – and doomed to failure.”

— Patricia Briggs